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Deek
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Dropbox Folder Location in Mac OS Ventura

Unavoidably, with the revised version of Dropbox under Ventura OS, my Dropbox folder was moved as predicted. After the installation, without giving it much thought, I moved the Dropbox folder (via ...
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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi highpoint7, it sounds like your machine has upgraded to the File Provider version using the CloudStorage location. 

 

If you've been updating files in the old location, then they won't sync normally to Dropbox. You'll need to manually check which files are new and move or copy them to the new, syncing folder.

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highpoint7
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

That's a lot of files I would have to check manually...What if I just selected them all in the folder, and moved them to the Dropbox in the location (which is the cloud) area of Finder would it see the identical files and ask me to skip those only sync the files that are new?

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    Hannah
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    2 years ago

    Hey highpoint7, this should depend on the settings you have for this action on your OS, since the Dropbox folder is just like any other folder on your computer.

     

    If you want, you can move a couple of files, as a test, to check and make sure before you move everything.

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