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How To Remove The /DropBox from the path In C Drive
Whenver I navigate through my folder, and go to the main drive, the path makes no sense as it is /dropbox/my pc. I deleted dropbox and its still there pls help. How do i remove the dropbox folder and...
You can reset the file path for these folders with the steps below:
- Navigate to the system's Desktop/Downloads/Documents folders via the File Explorer (not the folders in Dropbox).
- Right click the folder and choose "Properties".
- Go to the "Location" tab.
- Choose to reset the default folder path.
If you're having trouble locating these folders, they would be under the path C:/users/[your username]/
If you have any trouble with these steps then please let me know the exact step that you're running into issues. You can send along a screenshot too if relevant.
I could find steps on how to reset the path for other folders like downloads, and documents. But I couldn't figure out how to do it on the main drive, from which I showed the screenshot earlier.
Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for clarifying that TitanxD!
The "My PC" folder doesn't mean that the Dropbox app has backed up the entire computer to Dropbox.
Within this folder, you will see the computer folders that had synced with Dropbox.
Since you mentioned that you already reset the default folder path for Download and Documents, can you move the files from within those folders in Dropbox (Dropbox > My PC > Downloads/Documents), back to the original locations on your computer?
Also, do you have any other folders showing within the "My PC" folder?
Im not sure if you understand. I deleted DropBox, but the file path still mentioned dropbox, and i want to remove that part of the file path, since having dropbox in the file path makes t very hard for me, and my apps to navigate, since II have to do it manually everytime.
- Daphne
You can reset the file path for these folders with the steps below:
- Navigate to the system's Desktop/Downloads/Documents folders via the File Explorer (not the folders in Dropbox).
- Right click the folder and choose "Properties".
- Go to the "Location" tab.
- Choose to reset the default folder path.
If you're having trouble locating these folders, they would be under the path C:/users/[your username]/
If you have any trouble with these steps then please let me know the exact step that you're running into issues. You can send along a screenshot too if relevant.
Hi,
I'm having the exact same problem with my files.
I tried reseting the path like you wrote above but for some reason i'm getting the following error message when trying to do so:
"
The folder can not be moved here, Unable to redirect text structure, please select another destination path "Thanks for the help
- I so hoped that would have worked 😞
When I select the folder from its original location and right click and go to preferences it shows it being as it should be. There is no location button but it looks like it's in the right place. However, when I left click to select it, I get an error message that the file has been moved. I took some screen shots but I don't know how to attach them to this message.- DaphneYou should be able to attach the screenshot using the camera icon just above the reply box here reagananthony78.
Also, could you try these steps to see if we can reset the folder paths a different way?- Click the Dropbox icon in your system tray.
- Click the profile pic/initials icon in the top right of the window.
- Choose "Preferences..."
- Go to the "Account" tab.
- Hold the keys "Alt+H".
- Click the option "Reset OS folders".
There is the word "Location" but not tab with Location. The word is not clickable. What now?
