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Jay
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3 years ago

Hi BG Mahesh, in general, we don't recommend using migration programs as they can affect the permissions and settings in Dropbox desktop application on the new machine.

 

Did you disable the computer backup feature prior to the migration, so that the folders would've been in their default locations on the new machine?

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BG Mahesh
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3 years ago

No, I did not disable backup before migration. Should I have ideally logged out of Dropbox before starting migration?

Since I haven't really don't anything on the new MacBook, what do you suggest I do? Redo the migration with Dropbox-logged off?

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