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Emily D.5
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Mac - dragging is copying instead of moving

Hello!   I'm setting up dropbox on an old iMac running Catalina 10.15.7.   The app is installed and there's a Dropbox folder amongst all the other folders in Finder.   However when I drag and d...
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Emily D.5's avatar
Emily D.5
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Update: I figured out it's only the system's official folders that will only copy instead of move - e.g. "Pictures", "Documents", "Music".

 

Will do some Mac OS research on this.

 

Thanks

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Jay
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4 years ago

Hi Emily D.5, it isn't possible to manually move those folders since they're system folders on your device and are required to stay in the same position.

 

However, you can use Dropbox Backup to have the Dropbox app move the Desktop, Downloads and Documents folders into the Dropbox folder to sync to the site.

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