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Jonathan M.2
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11 years ago

Does renaming a folder cause all files in folder to be deleted from old, re-added to new?

I have a shared folder that was named "research" and that really turned into a folder to hold all my stuff on academia. It is shared across a few accounts that I control (not sure if that is importa...
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Jonathan M.2
New member | Level 2
11 years ago

Thanks for the information. Makes sense. Interesting that with the shared folder rename, it didn't automatically rename on some of my computers (as you described, and as I expected), but it did on others.

With the older computers, they were completely synced before they were shut down. Is that to be expected as well? I've started uninstalling dropbox on computers that I know will be off longer than a month so I won't have to deal with it (not the worst idea in the world, anyway - I have a backup snapshot from that time that won't change).

Thanks again for the information!

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