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lamoidfl
Helpful | Level 5
9 months ago

Moving Dropbox folder is almost impossible

Have you ever tried to move your dropbox folder? It is nearly impossible to do it without it redownloading everything and that can take days. There is no excuse for such a bad product! And ever try t...
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Rich
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9 months ago
lamoidfl wrote:

Have you ever tried to move your dropbox folder? It is nearly impossible to do it without it redownloading everything and that can take days.

Yes. I did it this weekend without a problem. I moved a 200GB+ Dropbox folder between two drives and it completed in the time it took to cook dinner. No issues.

lamoidfl wrote:

And ever try to remove the dropbox folder link in from the top of your windows desktop folder? I do not want it there and it is impossible to move it!

That's correct, there's no option to remove it. It's a function of the application.

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