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pesas
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Merging Folder Contents Within the Same Dropbox Account

Hi, I'd be grateful for help with the following inquiry... over the years of using Dropbox, I've ended up with a number of folders (and/or sub-folders) of the same name located in different folder 't...
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Daphne's avatar
Daphne
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6 years ago

Thanks for getting back to me here pesas!

 

If there's anything else that I can help with, don't hesitate to give me a nudge here. :grin:

 

Hope you have a great rest of your week Gary!

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Jerry G.8
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Actually there is a fix.  Create a new folder called something like "merged" then copy both folders into that new one.  Once you are done with deleting duplicates, etc., you can merely delete the two original folders.  Vioila!

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