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Dropbox Issues For years I’ve successfully had Dropbox located on my D drive of both my desktop and my old laptop, which has a second drive. When I bought My new laptop earlier this year, with only ...
I'm sorry. I misunderstood where the issue was. However, there's no way for an install on your laptop to have any effect on your desktop. Installing Dropbox onto the C drive of one computer cannot force a different computer to move the Dropbox folder from one drive to another. Something else must have caused the issue on your desktop.
How did you install Dropbox on each computer? Did you download the installer from the Dropbox website, or did you get it from the Microsoft Store app?
Rich
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Super User IIThe problem is, I can’t do a full local sync because my C drive is too full.
When you install Dropbox, one of the questions it asks is if you want your files to start as Online-only. If you uninstall, remove the local Dropbox folder, and then reinstall, you should be able to select that option.
If you have any changed files in your local Dropbox that haven't synced yet, be sure to back them up before deleting the Dropbox folder.
