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DawnDavis
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

How can I transfer my Dropbox files from one computer to another?

My boss gave me a Macbook Pro and I need to get the dropbox files from the Mac computer to the laptop and I don't know how to do this

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    Mark
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    2 months ago

    The best and easiest way I always find to do this is just install Dropbox on machine number 2 (i.e. the MacBook Pro) and let Dropbox sync everything itself. It will take a bit of time, but as long as you dont have huge amounts of data its fine :)

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