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Duplicate file structure/incomplete migration?
Folks,
Yes, I'm a newcomer here – because I've been using Dropbox for more than a decade and not had any problems. So that's good! But now I'm here, because the recent "upgrade" seems to have...
Megan
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks, Megan! It shows the new CloudStorage location, /Users/myname/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox-Personal
(And, just to make it more complicated, there appear to be *three* locations for a lot of data. Users/myname/,
/Users/myname/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox-Personal,
and Users/myname/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox-Personal/computername
all have Desktop folders with different content, although only the first shows as my computer desktop.)
- Megan
Hey AirSix, thanks for the rapid response!
If the app's preferences state that this is the path of your folder, I'd trust that.
However here is what I would personally do: I would try adding a test file to each of the paths you mentioned above.
The only path that should be syncing with your account online, should be this: /Users/myname/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox-Personal.
If none of the other paths sync to your account online, then you're free to delete them.
- Megan,
I’m not sure that’s wise. The other two file structures include many subfolders that do not appear in the one that is syncing. this is why I think there may have been an incomplete migration to the new location.
Also, I don’t know how to get that new location to appear as the desktop on my computer; the desktop I see on my Mac has a number of folders that do not appear in the CloudStorage location.
Is there a way, perhaps, to restart the upgrade and migration to the new file structure?
