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Can I link my old Dropbox folder again to my account after moving to a new device?
I am a DropBox Pro user since many years. Lightning destroyed my W7 PC where I had a partition š§ with a folder named DropBox. The folder was replicated and syncronized with the DropBox cloud.
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Hi Nancy, checking the syncing icons next to file names what i could not do up to now, there were only the dreaded Xes. Now however, I have taken the drastic measure and simply uninstalled onedrive, and that seems to have cured this problem. So, for the moment at least, DropBox is starting to look familiar again. Next will be to change the local DropBox location from C:\Users\.... to somewhere else more convienient. Many thanks for you all for your help solving this š
Hi Nancy, and well come to the discussion.
First the current situation: Running W10 I see no DropBox in the system tray. All (?) my DropBox files are visible under c:/User etc..., but all files are still marked with an X, so not much seems to have happened since yesterday.
I am also a bit puzzled with the 300000 files limit. I have a 1 Tbyte flash disk so this should not be a problem?
Right clicking on any arbitrary file in the DroBox folder, I notice something called "Make available offline". Does this mean that the DropBox files are offline by default? Is this the reason behind the X marking? Making a file available does not make the familiar "synced" marking to appear though.
Then to the DropBox app. As far as I can discover, I have no DropBox app visible anywhere. Where should it be and what should it look like?
Clicking the DropBox link produces nothing on the screen. The link point to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client\Dropbox.exe" /home
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey LaEi - could you send us a screenshot of the X marking you mentioned so that we can have a visual too?
Also, can you send us another screenshot showing your system tray?
When it comes to making files online-only or available offline, you can have a look here.
Here is a examples of the peculiar X markings. As can be seen, only files are marked this way, but not folders.
and here is what I believe is the system tray
The link regarding offline files states that these files are also locally stored, but it does not explicitly say whether they are synced or not, i.e. if I update one of these offline files, will that file be updated in the DropBox cloud also?
- Jay
Hi LaEi, the grey X marking are related to a conflict with OneDrive. Could you try quitting the OneDrive app on your machine to see if the icons change?
Additionally, the Dropbox icon is there in the system tray, showing the red 4 number on it.
Hi Jay,
sorry for the late answer. I thought I sent an answer on Wednesday, but it never turned up here?
Anyway, I have not activated onedrive and have no account either. I have a lot more confidence in DropBox than in onedrive so have never used it anywhere, but with windows you can never know what the system does, can you?
As to the system tray, I now see the Dropbox icon, I probably overlooked it because it was black and not blue.
