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Migrating Dropbox Accounts to New Computer
Hi. I have 2 large Dropbox Accounts, Personal and Professional Team, where I am Administrator on Macbook Air 500GB. I installed the new OS 12.1 Monterey and had my Laptop with Dropbox's backed up (...
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey Jeff F, thanks for your post today.
Would you mind clarifying something? Are you reinstalling Dropbox on the same computer, which was previously unlinked?
Or are you installing Dropbox on a new computer, like the title of your post says?
If you're installing on a new computer, it would be best to just sign in and allow Dropbox to download your files (you can also choose to sync everything as online-only).
The method you described is used for when you already have a Dropbox folder on your computer (perhaps on a different drive) and do not wish to re-download your files.
Of course this would be successful if all the files were locally available.
Keep me posted.
Would you mind clarifying something? Are you reinstalling Dropbox on the same computer, which was previously unlinked?
Or are you installing Dropbox on a new computer, like the title of your post says?
If you're installing on a new computer, it would be best to just sign in and allow Dropbox to download your files (you can also choose to sync everything as online-only).
The method you described is used for when you already have a Dropbox folder on your computer (perhaps on a different drive) and do not wish to re-download your files.
Of course this would be successful if all the files were locally available.
Keep me posted.
