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Stephen J.9
Explorer | Level 4
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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Stephen J.9
Explorer | Level 4
7 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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7 months ago

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

  • Stephen J.9's avatar
    Stephen J.9
    Explorer | Level 4
    7 months ago

    I was able to muddle my way through using the support.microsoft.com procedure and identify a new place to park the search data. Windows deleted the folders sub to Dropbox and created a folder in the new location, and is currently re-indexing the locations in my "include" list.

    Thank you for the tip!


    Steve

     

    • Megan's avatar
      Megan
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      7 months ago

      Thanks for keeping us in the loop Stephen J.9! 😇

      Keep an eye on it, and if you need anything else, just give us a shout! 

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