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    <title>topic Re: Unable to set up folders for Desktop and Documents on Mac (iCloud Drive) in Settings and Preferences</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741676#M16998</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi Mark,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you for answering. If so, then what is the point of Dropbox suggesting me to backup Documents, Downloads and other iCloud Drive folders?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 11:59:34 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>oklahoma9</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2024-01-07T11:59:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Unable to set up folders for Desktop and Documents on Mac (iCloud Drive)</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741660#M16992</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;'Unable to set up folders' is an error message I'm getting after I try, well, to set up folders on Mac.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Steps to reproduce: Settings – Backups – This Mac Manage backups – Check Documents folder – Continue with Basic (Yes, continue) – x folders with issues.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;While I am able to backup folders not synced by iCloud Drive, such as ~/Public or ~/ Downloads&amp;nbsp;(see screenshots below).&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;'Symbolic links can't be followed' is an error message I'm getting when using ln -s ~/Documents. I may be wrong but this worked some time ago.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Moving Dropbox folder to iCloud Drive location isn't allowed because of Apple ban or some other reason. I've tried creating the folder named differently and it didn't work for me. Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.cultofmac.com/643192/dropbox-folder-icloud-drive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://www.cultofmac.com/643192/dropbox-folder-icloud-drive/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Getting documents to be synced by both iCloud Drive and Dropbox is what I am trying to achieve. Full disk access Enabled. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Thanks in advance and apologies for possibly using the wrong category.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Dropbox v189.4.8427&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;macOS Sonoma v14.2.1 (23C71)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:33:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741660#M16992</guid>
      <dc:creator>oklahoma9</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-01-08T14:33:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Unable to set up folders for Desktop and Documents on Mac (iCloud Drive)</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741665#M16994</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1791919"&gt;@oklahoma9&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Simply put you cannot do this. It wont work and &lt;STRONG&gt;will&lt;/STRONG&gt; lead to data loss.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;If the directory is in iCloud you cannot sync to Dropbox. If its in Dropbox you cannot sync to iCloud.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 10:36:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741665#M16994</guid>
      <dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-01-07T10:36:08Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Unable to set up folders for Desktop and Documents on Mac (iCloud Drive)</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741676#M16998</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi Mark,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you for answering. If so, then what is the point of Dropbox suggesting me to backup Documents, Downloads and other iCloud Drive folders?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 11:59:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741676#M16998</guid>
      <dc:creator>oklahoma9</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-01-07T11:59:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Unable to set up folders for Desktop and Documents on Mac (iCloud Drive)</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741680#M16999</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I suspect Dropbox cannot see/aware that iCloud already is backing them up, but, it is why its failing.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 14:34:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741680#M16999</guid>
      <dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-01-07T14:34:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Unable to set up folders for Desktop and Documents on Mac (iCloud Drive)</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741691#M17000</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Is there any way to report this issue to Dropbox? This is on their side.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2024-01-07 at 18.32.01.png" style="width: 800px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/43246iF55F872B371FD4C5/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2024-01-07 at 18.32.01.png" alt="Screenshot 2024-01-07 at 18.32.01.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:32:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Settings-and-Preferences/Unable-to-set-up-folders-for-Desktop-and-Documents-on-Mac-iCloud/m-p/741691#M17000</guid>
      <dc:creator>oklahoma9</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2024-01-07T16:32:53Z</dc:date>
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