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AirSix
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Duplicate file structure/incomplete migration?

Folks,    Yes, I'm a newcomer here – because I've been using Dropbox for more than a decade and not had any problems. So that's good!  But now I'm here, because the recent "upgrade" seems to have...
desktop
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AirSix
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Thanks, Megan!  It shows the new CloudStorage location, /Users/myname/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox-Personal

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AirSix
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

(And, just to make it more complicated, there appear to be *three* locations for a lot of data. Users/myname/,

/Users/myname/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox-Personal,

and Users/myname/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox-Personal/computername

all have Desktop folders with different content, although only the first shows as my computer desktop.)

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