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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...
Ted44 wrote:...
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.
Ted44 wrote:...
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.
Thanks for you help!
Apple support helped me and used your advice and saved it to "home" and was able to reinstall, change back up setting, and fix things
You are not the only one. I have also recently been having trouble with Dropbox syncing with a Mac. It works smoothly only if I go with the suggestion to upload my entire hard drive to Dropbox. When I only upload selected files, the others seem to disappear from the Mac itself. I have my Mac backed up to a hard drive, so I used Time Machine to restore a file but it immediately disappeared. Finally I gave in and checked All on the sync options. After a little while everything worked. This is making me crazy. I tried to contact Dropbox's help desk to work things out, but could only chat because they don't provide phone support to Dropbox Plus users. I have no need for the higher level account and I am seriously thinking of leaving Dropbox altogether. It used to be stable and easy to use, but now they seem to be shifting to a different approach that is not meeting my needs as well.
