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My Documents folder has been moved to Dropbox somehow even after uninstalling it. Can you help?
Original objective seemed trivial. Wanted to download a copy of my old files from the Dropbox cloud down to a different computer. After several attempts and a lot of time, I was unable to do that fro...
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorOnce the computer backup feature has been disabled, the folders in the Dropbox folder would become normal folders and won't be synced with Dropbox any longer.
As per the article Rich attached, you can move your files back to their original locations if you no longer want the previous files backed up to Dropbox.
By the way, the proposed solution became even worse than I thought it was. Discovered another program that was spawning new folders in the original place, so now it becomes necessary to reconcile versions between two subdirectories and I need to know how the OTHER program handles the file system.
Who had the idea of reorganizing our computers file systems for the convenience of Dropbox? NOT a good idea.
So now I have to retract my suggestion for a recovery utility. Too likely that it would make the bad situation worse. This also undoes my "simpler" suggestion of making sure the uninstall leaves the computer in the original condition. That condition can no longer be guaranteed because other programs may have interfered.
Please DO NOT CHANGE THE FILE SYSTEMS on OUR computers for the convenience of Dropbox. This is SO much worse than I thought it was at first. The word "Please" fails me.
