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Moving Dropbox folder to a new drive WITHOUT resyncing.
My current Dropbox pathway is on a drive that is maxed out of capacity and I want to move it to a 2TB internal SSD. I copied my entire Dropbox folder to the new drive but when I try to choose the n...
Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey there au5, I'd be happy to help out here!
As you mentioned that a Dropbox folder is being created inside the folder you copied over to your new drive, it would suggest that when selecting the new location you're selecting the actual Dropbox folder itself.
If the current Dropbox folder on the new drive is, for example, in the path "D:\Folder 1\Dropbox", then the location you select during the setup of the desktop app will be "D:\Folder 1".
If, when you select this location the desktop app doesn't recognise the current Dropbox folder and creates a new one (but in the correct location) the workaround I can suggest is the following.
Pause the syncing of the desktop app, move the content of the copied Dropbox folder to the new folder the app created, resume the syncing of the desktop app.
It will need to do some indexing to check all the files are there, but it won't resync them if there are no pending changes.
Let me know if you have any questions!
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