Need to see if your shared folder is taking up space on your dropbox 👨💻? Find out how to check here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
I can't point to existing Dropbox folder upon installing the desktop app on a new computer
I have an exceptionally large Dropbox folder/directory — It is over 800g with around 800,000 files. I have the Dropbox folder on its own (internal) hard drive due it its size. In the past I was able...
Yes — I am up and running, but it took the better part of a day+ to download all the files from the cloud to the local disk
Yes, I did use the advance option and told the installer use the existing dropbox location, but the installer said “no” and offered to rename it ( in this case it was e:\dropbox – I think it want to rename it to e:\dropbox-old or something like that) or pick a different location – this was a first time install, do db was never on this new computer
I don’t’ recall the "online-only" and "local" option – so once installed I had to use the file explorer to the the (sub)folder to “offline”
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIis the info you need?
Don't click the icon. Just hover your cursor over it. It will look like this:
I think i got it now
