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Desktop Application Will Not Allow Existing Dropbox Folder to Be Used. Error: "The folder already contains a Dropbox directory."
I have been a happy user of Dropbox for years. Until recently . . .
Dropbox recently quit working properly. The latest issue today was that it failed to load the "platform plugin windows." The ...
You should not select the Dropbox folder but the folder you wish Dropbox to be placed in. Then it will be installed in that folder.
If its on a 2nd drive and not in a folder, simply select the Drive in the chooser window.
At least this is what I am thinking based upon your post. I made this same issue at first when trying to move Dropbox all those years ago.
The installer will let you choose the location. It on the last screen before it closes under the advanced settings. Many users myself included think Dropbox was already being installed in the default location at this point in the process but it was still waiting.
@luis, Cristopher, Michael
Yes. Install. Keep going. It will ask for login, keep going.
The blue portrait installer thing will have several stages. The first will be login, then, at some point you will have a blue screen that says "Advanced options". It will feel like it's too late, it isn't.
1: Login :Click me for the login screen
2: It will seem like it's done, like this: Click me for finished screen.
3: But it's not all over. "Advanced" does this: Click me for the advanced screen
In there, it will have a Dropbox folder combo where the new location (C:\users\Wrong\Folder\Dropbox) will be and, maybe, the previous folder (D:\Dropbox). If you choose "D:\Dropbox", it will spew out a confusing error message "There already is a Dropbox at that location". Which is what you WANT. The software is correct, it's just darn ambiguous.
The error should read "You can't put Dropbox in your Dropbox, since your username isn't Xzibit". If that message were real, you would immediately know what the issue is. The folder should be "D:\" NOT "D:\Dropbox".
So click the combo box, Select "Other" or "Browse" (can't remember) and click on the parent folder - The folder where you want your "Dropbox" folder to drop.
If you want to use F:\Stuff\Dropbox\Folder.jpg, then you need to point at F:\Stuff.
You'll know you did it right when Dropbox quietly accepts your selection and the icon in the tray starts putting out decent stats (Indexing 20.000 files).
I hope this is more clear.
