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Hi, I am looking to change the location of my Dropbox folder. Right now both computers have Dropbox installed and the files are in the default location. My question is, I want to change the location of the Dropbox folder to the D:\ on Computer 1, but Computer 2 doesn't have a D:\ drive. Will that work? Or do both computers have to have the same location path available?
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Thanks for the response Jay! So just to confirm my thinking, one computer's dropbox client is going to show the new path, and the other computer will show the default path?
Also, if I make any changes to what content syncs down to the computer, will those settings be shared between both clients? What I mean is, I have to be cognizant which computer has the smallest amount of free space, correct?
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This topic seems to be directly related to my issue. Desktop computer has Dropbox located on drive E:. Laptop has only drive C:. I want my laptop to use the extensive Categories I have created on Desktop. I copied the related .dat file to Laptop. However, all Desktop file locations are hard mapped to drive E:. Therefore, the links in the categories are useless. Can the files be mapped using a symbolic link or some other method? If so, please provide instructions.
Thanks.
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