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Fayanora
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago
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Moving to a new drive instructions don't match screen

I'm on a Windows 10 machine, trying to change Dropbox over to the D drive since C is getting full. But none of the tutorials or official instructions match my screen. When I go to the taskbar and cli...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    4 years ago

    Hi Fayanora, it looks like the Dropbox desktop application is appearing higher than it should be. Your screen resolution is also rather small, so you can't see the options at the top of the app itself, where you can access the preferences. 

     

    Have you enabled any Windows settings to increase the font size or DPI?

     

    As a workaround you can Ctrl-Click the Dropbox system tray icon to reach the various options in the app, including the preferences.

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Rich
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4 years ago
Fayanora wrote:

When I go to the taskbar and click on Dropbox, what I get is completely useless to me, does not contain any of the things the instructions say to look for.

If you can't provide a screenshot then you'll need to describe what you're seeing so we'll know how to help you.

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