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MChat1
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Moving Dropbox app to external hard drive when I am not the administrator of the account.

I am not the administrator of my office's Dropbox account, and I also use the Dropbox desktop app.  My C drive is now full and no longer syncing.  I purchased an external hard drive and need to move ...
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Megan's avatar
Megan
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3 years ago

Hi MChat1, based on what you said about your hard drive being full, I understand that you have a Dropbox folder located on your hard drive, right?

 

If so, then that means you have the desktop app installed, and not Dropbox Lite. However, could you try doing a quick re-installation, just to see if we can have the icon back on the task bar?

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MChat1
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Your link for a quick re-installation was 404'd.  Can you send a different way for me to get there?  And when I do a re-install, I hope the directions tell me how to uninstall as well.

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