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Paul D.4
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2 years ago

Two Dropbox folders after migration from old Mac to new

A couple of days after I did my migration I noticed on the new Mac there are two dropbox folders, the one that should be syncing with my other devices is called “DropBox personal” however, after the ...
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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey Paul D.4, thanks for the nudge here.

 

Can you send us a screenshot of the issue and a screenshot of how that looks in your account on dropbox.com?

 

Thanks in advance.

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Paul D.4
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2 years ago

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    Paul D.4
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    2 years ago

    sorry I did this repeatedly because for many minutes the post did not show even after refreshing page. btw I only use the DB web access interface in emergencies, here it is (I hope) on the web how can I have files & folders in same sorted list?

     

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      Paul D.4
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      2 years ago

      besides the mod dates being homogenized the size values are zero, dates & sizes ok on old MacBook DB bnut not on new


       

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        Jay
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        2 years ago

        Hi Paul D.4, in order to understand this in more detail, could you sort the files by date and attach them together side by side, with the same files in order (since they're blurred we can't tell which is which) so that we can see what the difference is?

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