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mgw1
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10 months ago

Copy large dropbox to new drive on MacOS Sonoma

I have my dropbox on an SMR external drive on MacOS Sonoma. I want to move it to my new SSD drive. But the dropbox is very large so many of the folders are online only. Which means they show up as 0 ...
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Jay
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10 months ago

Okay, so just to clarify, do you want to relocate your Dropbox folder to another SSD drive? 

Do you want the files to be made available offline in order to download them, or keep them as online-only files?

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mgw1
Helpful | Level 5
10 months ago

There is one SMR drive with the Dropbox. Many files are marked online only. Some folders are marked not to be synced with selective sync. I want to have all the folders and all the files on the SSD drive. It is ok if i relocate the Dropbox, or if the SSD contains copies of every file.

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    Walter
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    10 months ago

    In that case,  would moving your Dropbox folder to the new drive work for you or you'd like a copy instead mgw1? 

    You should also be able to change your sync settings from the app's preferences if needed. 

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