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katief
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago
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Duplicate Dropbox locations after update

The Dropbox accounts at our office updated last week and made a new Dropbox directory with all our files, but the old location and files still remain.  The folders in the old location will sync to Dr...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    4 years ago

    Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Katie!

     

    I'm glad that with Jay's help we were able to figure this out.

     

    You can read more about symlinks and this hidden Dropbox folder and instructions on what to do, here.

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katief
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Thanks Hannah.  When I open my Dropbox folder via the system tray, it opens to the new location.  All the folders in the new location have the contextual menu items.  We don't have any backup enabled.

Let me explain it this way maybe - We have location A, where the original Dropbox folder is located.  Dropbox updated and created location B, with a new Dropbox folder.  Both A and B are still syncing.  A does not have the contextual menus, B does.  There are two updating sets of every folder and file in our Dropbox account on my machine now. 

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Hannah
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4 years ago

Thanks for the update here, Katie. This does sound super strange. 

 

So, if you add a test file to the old Dropbox folder, does that file sync to your account? Do you see it when you go to dropbox.com?

  • katief's avatar
    katief
    Explorer | Level 3
    4 years ago

    Yep!  Any changes made in the old Dropbox folder (location A) is reflected online and in the new Dropbox folder (location B)

    • Megan's avatar
      Megan
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      4 years ago

      Hi katief, very interesting. 

       

      Can you take a screenshot of the folders by any chance and attach it here? 

      • katief's avatar
        katief
        Explorer | Level 3
        4 years ago

        I tried to piece it together in a way that made sense, hope this helps.

         

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