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AA071
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

I have two copies of Dropbox on different drives of my computer; I'd like to delete one of them.

Two copies dropbox on different drives same machine would like to delete one
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AA071
New member | Level 2
2 months ago
I’m not in front of the computer however it’s setup this way
We have c drive to run programs and d drive for dropbox. On d drive it is a full local copy of 800gb. A copy is now on c drive and is mostly online only. Not sure what happened. Preference to have on d drive and delete from C
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    Nancy
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for clarifying that! When you have access to your device again, I’d also like to know the Dropbox folder location that you see under the Sync tab of your app preferences.

     

    Otherwise, we could risk deleting the wrong folder, which would also affect your Dropbox files online.

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