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Stephen J.9
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10 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
    10 months ago

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

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Stephen J.9
Explorer | Level 4
10 months ago

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 . 

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Jay
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10 months ago

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

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