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mmday97
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Moving files from Dropbox back onto PC

Hi everyone. I wish there was a phone number to call for this but oh well. So my issue is, is that many files that were associated with my Student DropBox account became inaccessible on my PC. I down...
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Jay's avatar
Jay
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3 years ago

It looks like the backup is disabled, however, you might have older backups still visible in your account.

 

Try marking everything as available offline, and then drag it to another folder on your machine outside of the Dropbox folder. Don't move them to the Downloads, Downloads or Desktop folder for now.

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mmday97
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

I'm currently moving everything from the other Backup to My Documents, but I'm getting this error message for certain files??

 

 

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    3 years ago

    Thanks for the screenshot mmday97 - much appreciated.

     

    If you manually navigate to the folder's path, can you find it locally on your computer? 

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    Alan_E
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    And this entire thread is why Dropbox is a dinosaur waiting to die!

    I use it and want to remove folders/files from Dropbox ... if it's not click'n'drag then it should be!

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