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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?
Kia ora Rich. Thank you so much for replying so quickly. If I reinstall DB on my laptop again, though, will I have the same problem? The laptop doesn't have a D drive; only the desktop does. I don't want the desktop to populate the C drive. If I reinstall on laptop first, will that solve it?
Cheers
Kylee
- Rich
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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?
I usually get it from the DB site rather than the Ms Store. Anyway, things seem to have worked out now. Wish I had come here before DB Support. Cheers.
