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Ted44's avatar
Ted44
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Documents, Dowloads, Desktop, and Music folders on Mac

Recently, I downloaded Dropbox basic 2GB to try it out on my iMac, but then I decided to delete it. I deleted the app from my mac as well as from the trash folders on my mac. I realized like many, my...
  • Здравко's avatar
    4 years ago

    Ted44 wrote:

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    It won't give me the option to save anywhere else.


    That's not possible! Check your program (i.e. your web browser) settings. There should be a way to select where you want to save to your downloads. Select an existing folder (as I proposed before your home folder is a good example - it's never "catched" by Dropbox)!

    Be more careful!

     

    PS: You can try delete the links, which Dropbox have put there. Most probably your system (Mac) will recreate the default folder automatically. Try it! 😜 If doesn't happen fully automatic, try reboot. If not luck yet, try create the folders by hand.

    If you are familiar with terminal, try following commands:

    rm -rf ~/Downloads
    mkdir ~/Downloads

    Repeat above commands with all "missing" folders. Be careful not to apply them on an existing folder (entire content will gone)!

    You can check if "folder" is a real folder or link by following command:

    ls -l ~/Downloads

    If you see after name sequence "->" following by another name, it's a link with name and position listed at left pointing to real (or no so real, but supposed to be) folder (name and position) listed on right. If there is no "->", it a real file/folder, not a link.

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