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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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Paul D.4
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

I've posted elsewhere about the creation of two dropbox folders on a new MacBook following a migration from an old MacBook. Finally I realized what was going on, it seemed as though the working copy of the DropBox ƒ did not store the files locally, which is what I want. Conversely I could see someone opting to have what I'll call “DropBox aliases” that only download on demand, but that's not what I want. What setting or preference can I use to ensure that the entirety of the dropbox folder is stored locally, gets mirrored to the cloud and populate to other devices that I have installed dropbox on?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Paul

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