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Alex A.'s avatar
Alex A.
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
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Why did the location of my Dropbox folder change?

Today I noticed that right clicking on files in my Dropbox folder (the ones pinned to my Finder sidebar) did not bring up the Dropbox menu options.   After further investigation I realized that...
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  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    4 years ago

    Hey willit63, welcome to our Community! 

     

    Feel free to have a look into this thread, which can answer why this change took place.

     

    If you have any questions, let me know. 

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Gerald B.5
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

I am somewhat fortunate. I do have plenty of local drive space. In your case, splinegear, I would be livid. Over the years, I have had Dropbox on external drives, secondary drives in the machine, even SD Cards in years long gone. This new inflexibility is hugely limiting.

 

I might start exploring other options if they don't provide some solutions as, I agree, this is a disaster. I have a lot of workflow setup that no longer works with this auto move. I can live without it for now but I am hoping I can recover the files back to where I had them before this "event". Clearly, Dropbox is asleep at the switch or just does not care about their users.

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vr_driver
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Yep, same here. What a stuff up this is. I only just upgraded DB too, and use a dedicated external drive to support this cloud storage.

Not impressed at all.

 

DropBox is now completely unusable. I have an SSD with 2TB of storage set aside for the 2TB account on DropBox.

I only have 100GB of space on my MacMini available.

 

If this can't be solved I'll be seeking a refund.

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