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DavidBally010
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Instructions on 'How to Move Dropbox Folder' not working

I suspect hosting my Dropbox Desktop (Desktop app) on my hard drive is the cause of my computer seriously bogging down recently. I wanted to try moving the DropBox Desktop to my Passport External H...
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James Lynes
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Right.  It's not working!!!  Frustrating, frustrating frustrating!!!  (Chromebook ASUS) 

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Mark
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3 years ago

If you are using a Chromebook then there is no Dropbox folder on your machine James Lynes . Thats because you cannot install things like a computer on to it - you run it like a mobile device. So the options do not exist (hence you cannot open a Word document and save to C:\My Documents etc. as it doesnt have one). 

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    James Lynes
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    Thanks Mark, 

    I do have Dropbox on my Chromebook & have been using it for the past several months.  My problem is when I open Dropbox & the list of folders are in rows one after the other, I can't move one folder into another.  If I inadvertently started a new folder but in a sub-folder of a main folder, I can't "clip & paste" or drag it to make it a main folder or put it in a sub-folder of a different folder.  Dropbox doesn't appear to have a "clip & paste" or "drag" option to do this.

     

    Suggestions?  

    JJL

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      Hannah
      Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
      3 years ago

      Hey James Lynes, do you see some kind of ellipsis button (three dots) next to the folder, that would give you an option to move it?

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