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Problem of merging in reinstall
Hi. Why on earth this problem is not solved already? Las time I had a new laptop 5 years ago I had same problem. Cannot merge old folder, always Dropbox renames old folder Dropbox(old) and starts to...
Who in the right mind holds it in C drive?!
People that have plenty of space on their C drive. Mine is a 4 TB drive. Why would I put Dropbox anywhere else?
Why only so?! C:\Users\YourName\Dropbox
That's not the only location you can use for your Dropbox folder. It's just the default.
Have you worked with that solution?
As long as you're not using Selective Sync of marking files as Online-only (i.e. you sync everything to your local drive), then you can do the following. It's the same process I use every time I move Dropbox to a new computer.
Rename your existing Dropbox folder to Dropbox _OLD or similar. Install Dropbox and select the location you want for your Dropbox folder. Remember to select the folder one level above where you want Dropbox. If you want it at D:\Dropbox, select D:\ as the location. Continue the installation as normal.
As soon as the installation is complete Dropbox will launch and start to sync. Exit the application. Move the content of Dropbox_OLD into the newly created Dropbox folder. Once the copy is complete, and not before, launch the Dropbox application again.
At this point Dropbox will begin indexing all of your files. This process will take a while, especially if you have a lot of data to go through. During this time it may say that files are uploading or downloading, but it's only transferring comparison data and any changes that it finds. Be patient and LET IT WORK. If you have a large number of files it will still take a long time.
Much appreciated for your patient explanation, Rich!
I believe that is the solution, merge option got me pinned.
I waited out that 2 days option, but I'm sure your solution would work.
ps. I would edit out if I could that emotional linguistics part, aswell reference to that OneDrive.
