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Pidder
New member | Level 2
7 months ago

How can I move the Dropbox folder to another drive while on a Basic plan?

A friend and I want to share and work on files in DropBox. Before investing we woud like to try this in the basic version, but we do not want to have the files on drive C:, instead we would like to s...
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Jay's avatar
Jay
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7 months ago

Hi Pidder, thanks for messaging the Community!

You should be able to move the Dropbox folder to another drive by following the steps in this article.

This will keep it connected to the Dropbox desktop application, and continue syncing as normal, once the files have moved across.

If you need any further assistance, please let me know!

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Pidder
New member | Level 2
7 months ago

Hi Jay, thank you for your support. Unfortunatgely I cannot find the synchronisation tab. Where would I expect it?

Thank 's in advance

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