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phme
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Folder location and sync preferences after reinstalling the Dropbox app

Since you're asking for feedback, I'd say that when you have uninstall the Dropbox app to reinstall a new version, it would be nice if the app kept preferences between the two. Like many apps have be...
Folders
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theremon
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Adding to that, after installing and being forced to reset folders and so on, everything was set to cloud storage. So all files (about 99% of my dropbox contents) that I had saved on my computer need to be redownloaded.

This should not be the case. Select the old folder, sync the contents, done...

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