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Don't have dropbox anymore but my files are still named with it

Don't have dropbox anymore but my files are still named with it

afonsodebritto
Explorer | Level 3

My PC came with a Dropbox license, and I used it for a month and now have deleted it. But my folders are still labeled like "C:\Users\Afonso\Dropbox\PC\". I wished that \Dropbox weren't there. I still have a dropbox named folder on my PC, but it's empty, but if I try to delete it, it deletes all my other folders with the \Dropbox, even the ones I created after deleting Dropbox itself. How can I make it to don't have that \Dropbox there anymore?

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Re: Don't have dropbox anymore but my files are still named with it

Rich
Super User II

@afonsodebritto wrote:

My PC came with a Dropbox license, and I used it for a month and now have deleted it. But my folders are still labeled like "C:\Users\Afonso\Dropbox\PC\".


You had the backup feature enabled which moves your key folders (Desktop, Documents, etc.) into your Dropbox, and then you uninstalled Dropbox without first disabling the backup feature and moving the folders back to their original location.

 

You now need to move those folders back to their default location using the option in Windows. You'll want to do this for each of the folders that were backed up using Dropbox (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc.).

 

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