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TheEngineer
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3 years ago
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installing and cloning new SSD drive

Hi   I currently have a old 1TB SSD Drive with the dropbox folder on it.  I'd like to install a new 4 TB drive in my laptop and clone the old drive onto the new larger capacity SSD drive without ha...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    3 years ago

    Hi TheEngineer, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    It's likely that the same 'drive' won't be detected as the original drive the Dropbox folder was on originally. 

     

    This would result in the app trying to create another Dropbox folder, or renaming the older folder.

     

    If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

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Nancy
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3 years ago

Hi from me as well, TheEngineer! 

 

If you end up having two Dropbox folders on your computer, what you can do instead is pause the syncing of your desktop app, manually move/copy your files from the old Dropbox folder to the new one and then, resume syncing once again. 

 

This will cause the app to just reindex your files, instead of syncing everything from scratch.

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TheEngineer
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

thanks so much!  that helps!  Really appreciate this information!

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