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Stephen J.9
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7 months ago
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The Dropbox app is trying to sync folders, and there's no option to stop that.

DB is trying to sync stuff in my Windows folder and I now have 15 sync issues.  The "app" is about useless as mammaries on a bull.  It lists them, then sends you to the folder if you click "view file...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    7 months ago

    Do these steps from Microsoft help at all in changing the index location?

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Nancy
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7 months ago

Thanks for your post, Stephen J.9​.

To be able to further assist, can you clarify which folders the Dropbox app is trying to sync exactly?

When saying that you don't see an option to "don't sync this folder", do you mean that you'd like to ignore them this way perhaps?

If not, please send me a screenshot of what you’re seeing on your end, and I’ll have a look.

Keep me posted.

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