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Michael T.10
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3 years ago

Dropbox seems to have forked my Documents folder

I've been using Dropbox for years and generally not had problems with it.  But today I have a problem.  I have a documents folder that contains a GitHub directory that's full of local GitHub reposito...
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Hannah
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3 years ago

Hey Michael T.10, thanks for reaching out to the Dropbox Community.

 

From what I understand from the second folder path you provided, you have our backup feature enabled for your Documents folder.

 

This means that your Documents folder has been moved to your Dropbox folder, thus the folder path change.

 

Can you let me know more about your situation, though? Are you seeing the same Documents folder twice on your computer?

 

And can you send us a couple of screenshots showing this behavior, while making sure you blur out any personal info like file names and paths?

 

Thanks in advance.

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