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Ed Martin
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10 months ago

Resetting copy/move settings on MacOS

macOS. Long-time user. Installed Dropbox on a brand new computer. Let everything sync. I tried to move a folder from Dropbox onto local storage on my Mac.  A dialog came up asking (paraphrasing) if I...
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Hannah
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10 months ago

Hi from me as well, Ed Martin!

If this action dialog is coming from your OS, you won't be able to change the setting through Dropbox, but through your OS settings; have you tried searching there?

You can contact Apple for assistance on that as well.

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Ed Martin
New member | Level 1
10 months ago

Thanks!  Yes, I have.  The functionality for non-Dropbox items (files or folders) works as expected. It's only the DB files and folders that are different.

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