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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 install a second folder of Dropbox contents was created in my user folder and that's the one connected to the cloud. How do I override this copy being selected for synchronization?
It's conceivable that another action might've contributed to this problem in so far as I was reminded by a dropbox prompt that I'm only entitled to share DropBox services with three devices. I'd revisit that page if I knew where it was on my DropBox account webpage.
In summary, there are two questions, 1) how do I correct the wrong dropbox folder being selected for synchronization? (I’ll eventually purge the dupe)
2) what account page would I go to to review the particulars of the three devices for synchronization? (as best I recall Legacy devices were in the list that are no longer being used)
Thanks in advance for any help.
Paul
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I conducted a test by suspending synk and replacing a folder that had been erroneously changed as being recently modified with a copy that had the valid modification date. After a period of 24 hours or so I see that this folder was updated today's date, even though there had been no activity. When I went into the folder to confirm that I reviewing its contents I saw the two alias files had been updated, even though they nor the original files they pointed to had been touched for a long time. So this is another strange behavior where files namely, alias files, are getting updated within a folder and then the folder having its modification date altered even though there has been *no activity* on its contents.
