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HongStarr
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Duplicate files on Mac

Hi, Recently Dropbox requested an updated and now it created two copies of my song files in my DJ software. There seems to be a replica location for all my files called /Library/CloudStorage, in addi...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    2 years ago

    As the CloudStorage folder is the correct location, deleting the shortcut would only affect that shortcut itself, and not the files it points to.

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HongStarr
Explorer | Level 4

The shortcut from the Users folder and the shortcut from the new Dropbox folder under Locations look exactly the same (see screenshot). Are you sure that if I delete one, it won't delete the other?

 

 

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Jay
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2 years ago

As the CloudStorage folder is the correct location, deleting the shortcut would only affect that shortcut itself, and not the files it points to.

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    HongStarr
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    This solved the problem. However, Dropbox didn't move the files, it copied the files to a new location, hence the duplicates.

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