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Drive letter change in small team to same drive letter.
Hey there,
i would like some advice on what is the best practice to change the drive letter on a few workstations to the same drive letter.
Currently we have a few workstations with a team dr...
mlon wrote:
Since we are not moving anyting (no new drives etc.) but we like to standardize all the workstations to have the same Dropbox path.
What you're trying to do really isn't supported by Dropbox (change an existing drive letter while Dropbox is installed on that drive) and it has no way to make such a change. Your best and safest option would probably be to uninstall the Dropbox application, change the drive letter, then reinstall Dropbox being sure to specify the new location in the Advanced Options during the install.
So what would be the best thing to do?
Since we are not moving anyting (no new drives etc.) but we like to
standardize all the workstations to have the same Dropbox path.
Rich
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Super User II
mlon wrote:
Since we are not moving anyting (no new drives etc.) but we like to standardize all the workstations to have the same Dropbox path.
What you're trying to do really isn't supported by Dropbox (change an existing drive letter while Dropbox is installed on that drive) and it has no way to make such a change. Your best and safest option would probably be to uninstall the Dropbox application, change the drive letter, then reinstall Dropbox being sure to specify the new location in the Advanced Options during the install.
Yeh, thanks! That was my idea too!
Was just hoping there would be a less involved solution.
I'd love to have a simple solution for this too. I'm in the exact situation as mlon. Intuitively, it seems like if you stopped DB, changed your system drive letter, then went into DB's sync location and changed it to the new drive letter, and then turned DB back on it would work.
I don't know what's happening behind the scenes that would prevent that from happening and don't want to risk it deleting my archive.
- Rich
... and don't want to risk it deleting my archive.
The only safe way to accomplish this is as described. Uninstall, change drive letter, reinstall using the Advanced Options dialog.
