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How to sync changes only from my online Dropbox account to my Windows machine and not vice versa?
I accidentally messed up two subfolders in my Dropbox folder, and deleted them. Dropbox was not running. I still have copies of those folders in my Dropbox account. How can I stop Dropbox syncing the...
How can I stop Dropbox syncing the changes to the cloud, i.e. deleting those folders from my account, when I run the app on my PC?
As soon as Dropbox starts and indexes your files, it will find the folders missing and remove them from your account. There's no way to prevent that from happening other than replacing the local files before you start Dropbox.
Go to the Dropbox website and download the folders manually, then put A COPY of them back in your local Dropbox folder. Once the folders are back, restart Dropbox. It should index your files, find no changes and continue as normal. In the off chance that the folders are deleted, you'll have a copy downloaded as a backup, or you can recover the files from your Deleted Files on the Dropbox website.
Well, I created another user account on my PC and installed the Dropbox app there. I'll only sync those two folders and copy them then to my main user account.
