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00aime
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
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How to Restore Default Location of Your Personal Folders - ie. Downloads

Hi,     I've been trying to figure out how to relocate my Downloads folder to my MacOS and I just don't understand how. Even in order to see my Downloads folder in my Desktop Dropbox Folder loc...
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  • 00aime's avatar
    00aime
    5 months ago

    So I’m terrible because since I leftMegan​ hanging two years ago, I don’t remember the outcome of this rabbit hole.

    I get the feeling that it came down to having turned on the Backup feature accidently once and it kind of acted like iCloud acts on MacOS.. it basically syncs everything and when you delete it from your computer, it deletes it everywhere. It’s a mysterious concept to me as it defies the concept of backups.

    Anyway.. I now have my Downloads folder on my Mac and out of my Dropbox and as far as I can see/ remember, I think I blatantly dragged it into my Favorites sidebar and it's lived there ever since.

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00aime
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Hi Megan,

 

I could indeed do that but what bothers me is that it wouldn't change the fact that my "My Mac" folder, containing my "Downloads" folder is inside my Dropbox folder on my computer. I want to restore its default location on my operating system.

 

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NAustMal
New member | Level 2
5 months ago

I'm literally having THIS same problem. Somehow when deleting the dropbox app off my iMac, the DESKTOP and all downloads, plus everything on my computer, imovie, all photobooth files VANISHED. It's scary and frustrating and seems to not really have a great solution to resolve it. 

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    Walter
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    5 months ago

    Hey NAustMal - sorry to hear about this.

    Is it possible that you had enabled the Dropbox Backup feature at some point in the past perhaps? If so, did you disable it before deleting or uninstalling the Dropbox desktop app from your computer? 

     

  • 00aime's avatar
    00aime
    Helpful | Level 6
    5 months ago

    So I’m terrible because since I leftMegan​ hanging two years ago, I don’t remember the outcome of this rabbit hole.

    I get the feeling that it came down to having turned on the Backup feature accidently once and it kind of acted like iCloud acts on MacOS.. it basically syncs everything and when you delete it from your computer, it deletes it everywhere. It’s a mysterious concept to me as it defies the concept of backups.

    Anyway.. I now have my Downloads folder on my Mac and out of my Dropbox and as far as I can see/ remember, I think I blatantly dragged it into my Favorites sidebar and it's lived there ever since.

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