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archer1960
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3 months ago

Changing the location of my Dropbox folder on Windows 11

Question or Issue I am trying to change where the dropbox app looks for my files. I had to reset my Win 11 OS and reinstall the DropBox app, so it now points to c:\dropbox, instead of e:\dropbox whe...
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Dell_Dropbox
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3 months ago

Hey there, welcome to the community archer1960​ 

Simply changing the Drive letter to a different location isn't functionality that Dropbox has. 

Your best and safest option would probably be to uninstall the Dropbox application, change the drive letter, then reinstall Dropbox being sure to specify the new location in the Advanced Options during the install.

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