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How do I unsync Dropbox from Ms Word so documents don't automatically download into Dropbox?
How do I unsync Dropbox from Ms Word so documents don't automatically download into Dropbox? I contacted Dropbox in frustration but they wouldn't help me as they said it was an "MS Word problem." How...
Hi jennikeast, It seems to me that you using MS Word on Windows or Mac, and saving the files inside Dropbox folder. Note that anything you save inside your Dropbox folder will be synced. The default location for Dropbox in windows is C:\Users\UserName\Dropbox. In case you are using a Mac, it is /Users/UserName/Dropbox. If you do not want to sync certain files, you should save them in a different location than the Dropbox location.
Hi jennikeast, It seems to me that you using MS Word on Windows or Mac, and saving the files inside Dropbox folder. Note that anything you save inside your Dropbox folder will be synced. The default location for Dropbox in windows is C:\Users\UserName\Dropbox. In case you are using a Mac, it is /Users/UserName/Dropbox. If you do not want to sync certain files, you should save them in a different location than the Dropbox location.
Apparently this is the case. But I don't have Dropbox as an automatic "Save As" default, so I'm wondering how this could happen?
For example, I have numerous folders with variations of the folder name "Disney." Before Dropbox (and for that matter, iCloud), I only had one option: My Documents on my Mac. Now it appears I will always have to click on "Save as" on any document I've just created to make sure it's going exactly where I want it (which 90% of the time will be under Documents vs. Dropbox or iCloud. Rather annoying I have to say!
When I discovered that several articles that I just wrote about Disneyland ended up in Dropbox Disney folder (which should only have my images that I will end up sharing with my editor), I had to immediately figure out a way to move them out of there and into my Disney folder in Documents. Turns out, there's no easy way to do that. Dropbox, from what I can tell, won't allow you to Move a Folder to a folder outside of Dropbox (onto my computer). Instead, I have to download those articles, then open up another Finder window and drag them to the correct Disney folder in my Documents.
Whew! Talk about a real time waster. (Not to mention having to REMEMBER each and every time to check and make sure I'm not saving something in Dropbox that I don't want to. Ugh.
Anyway, thanks for your help on this. Hopefully the problem is solved, unless you have something else to add that might be helpful to me in this regard?
:)
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
:slight_smile:Thanks for all your input. I just forwarded this conversation to a friend who might be able to help me find this default setting on MS Office 2011. Because thus far, I haven't been able to find it. Googling it hasn't helped either, unless someone here knows where I can find that info (please send link if you can) for the 2011 version of MS Office.
If I can't get help with this, I'll have to buy the 2016 MS Office version for Mac just so I can get free tech support for this issue! I should probably buy a new version anyway since I have had compatibility issues with 2011 and other version of MS Word.
Once I find a solution (unless the solution means being forced to buy 2016 MS Office), I'll mark this as RESOLVED on this forum. :)
- Jane
