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Robert F.41
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Dropbox changed location, now lots of "conflicted copies".

A couple of days ago Dropbox updated itself by moving my Dropbox files to ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox.  Ever since then, I'm seeing all kinds of duplicate folders that have "conflicted copy" in th...
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MitjaBosnic
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

I had the same issue and it's definitely not a sync thing. Dropbox just moved all the folders that I used to have in my "root folder" or whatever you'd call it into a folder called "Mitja [removed]". I tried moving them back but it seems like I can no longer have any files or regular (non-team) folders there. This just deleted all my shortcuts, many of which were used to share files directly to hundreds of our customers.

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Hannah
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3 years ago

Hey MitjaBosnic, sorry to see you're having this issue.

 

Can you please check the 'sync' tab in your Dropbox preferences and let us know what the location of your Dropbox folder is?

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