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Moving files out of Dropbox now defaults to the 'copy' function
Starting sometime this week, whenever I try to move a file out of my Dropbox to another location on the same drive, it will default to 'copy' and leave the original still in Dropbox. This duplication...
Hi Everybody,
Thanks for your patience while we looked into this. This change in behavior was the result of a change by Microsoft. Dragging a folder out of a root sync folder now defaults to the copy function on Windows 11. This change is not limited to Dropbox, but any root sync folder.
As a workaround, shift+click and drag will allow the expected cut + paste or "move folder" functionality.
Regards,
Ben
BenDBX
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Community ManagerHi Everybody,
I wanted to let everyone know that we are still actively investigating. I have no news at the moment, but we're still looking into it, and I'll provide an update here when I have more information to share!
Thanks,
Ben
Any update on this? - It is such a pain!
- BenDBX
Hi Everybody,
Thanks for your patience while we looked into this. This change in behavior was the result of a change by Microsoft. Dragging a folder out of a root sync folder now defaults to the copy function on Windows 11. This change is not limited to Dropbox, but any root sync folder.
As a workaround, shift+click and drag will allow the expected cut + paste or "move folder" functionality.
Regards,
Ben
- So this is it? That is such a pain. I think I'm going to look into other options if there's no other solution.
I uninstalled Dropbox because of this and a bunch of other technical problems. Switched to Google drive. Google drive has been working well for me with none of the issues in Dropbox that had caused me to waste hours of time.
This is very disappointing and definitely a negative against dropbox. At a minimum, how about we get an "unsupported" registry change that we can make on our own?
