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muddleglum
New member | Level 2
9 months ago

Reinstalled the Dropbox app and it wants to rename my Dropbox folder

Sadly, I had already downloaded another and have a problem -- instead of picking up my old dropbox folder, the installer wants to rename it. I'm not sure what to do now. except reboot in the middle o...
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Megan's avatar
Megan
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9 months ago

Thanks for the screenshot muddleglum! 

Essentially your path should be: C:\User\username and once you select that, your existing Dropbox folder should be there. 

All that should happen is that the app will re-index any changes, instead of downloading all of your content from scratch. 

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muddleglum
New member | Level 2
9 months ago

I'm now in another dialog box.

I'm going to try to click the Merge button, and hope.

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