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Stephen J.9
7 months agoExplorer | Level 4
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...
- 7 months ago
Do these steps from Microsoft help at all in changing the index location?
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
7 months agoHI Stephen J.9, could you confirm the exact folder in which the search index is stored on your device, within the Dropbox folder?
Stephen J.9
7 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Wait I lie:
NOW when I click "fix this" it takes me to the actual file:
this is the first time it has taken me to see the files and they ARE in the Dropbox folder.
- Stephen J.97 months agoExplorer | Level 4
When I followed the instructions to fix my Windows Indexing, it never asked me where to park the index information, I just assumed it was going to make it part of the Windows whatever that does.
- Stephen J.97 months agoExplorer | Level 4
I pointed the search options to "Dropbox" because that is the only thing I wanted indexed and it parked the folder sub to the folder it was indexing. I'm not certain how to fix that .
- Jay7 months ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Do these steps from Microsoft help at all in changing the index location?
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