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Elliot J.1
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3 years ago

Sync to an existing Dropbox Folder (External Drive)

I had a Mac Mini M1 with a personal Dropbox account and a team Dropbox account.  The Personal Account Dropbox folder is on an external drive.  The folder is called Dropbox (Personal).  Everything wor...
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Elliot J.1's avatar
Elliot J.1
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Jay -

 

The Dropbox folder on the internal drive is called Dropbox so it is different from the external folder name which is called Dropbox (Personal).

 

Yes, all the files have synced because I forgot to stop the sync after the migration was completed and I restarted the computer.

 

Elliot

 

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Hannah
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3 years ago

Hey Elliot J.1, sorry to jump in here.

 

If the new folder has already finished syncing all your files, and it's identical to the old one on the external drive, I would actually suggest you follow these steps to move the Dropbox folder to the external drive and delete the old one.

 

The move won't take as long as syncing does and it's guaranteed to work.

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