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paulienat
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5 years ago

MAC - Documents Folder is now an Alias - Can't sync the same folder on Google Drive

Hi everyone, I just set-up Dropbox to automatically backup my Documents Folder on Mac. I did the backup. I also use Google Drive to do a secondary cloud backup and when I opened it Drive was unable t...
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Rich
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5 years ago
paulienat wrote:

I checked and I noticed that now the Documents Folder is an Alias Folder, looks like Dropbox moves it somewhere around doing a mess. 

That's how it's supposed to work. The "backup" feature moves your Desktop, Documents and Downloads folders into the Dropbox folder so they can sync to your account.

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