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Sunny7
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4 years ago
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I deleted Dropbox from my computer and some of my desktop files were deleted as well

Dear community,   some months ago I deleted already my dropbox desktop version from my laptop and also deleted my account. But some days  ago I saw that one folder with the path "C:\Users\conny\D...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    4 years ago

    Hey Sunny7, thanks for reaching out to the Dropbox Community.

     

    It sounds like you had enabled our backup feature on the Dropbox application, when you had it installed. 

     

    This would have moved your desktop folders' paths to Dropbox.

     

    Can you try the steps in this thread, to move the paths of the desktop folders that are now in Dropbox, back to their original locations, to see if that helps?

     

    Let me know how it goes.

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Hannah
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4 years ago

Hey Sunny7, thanks for reaching out to the Dropbox Community.

 

It sounds like you had enabled our backup feature on the Dropbox application, when you had it installed. 

 

This would have moved your desktop folders' paths to Dropbox.

 

Can you try the steps in this thread, to move the paths of the desktop folders that are now in Dropbox, back to their original locations, to see if that helps?

 

Let me know how it goes.

  • Sunny7's avatar
    Sunny7
    New member | Level 2
    4 years ago

    Hello Hannah,

     

    thanks a lot for your help! I followed the navigation in the other post and I could reset the folder location. 

     

    Best regards

    Cornelia

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