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Alex A.'s avatar
Alex A.
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Why did the location of my Dropbox folder change?

Today I noticed that right clicking on files in my Dropbox folder (the ones pinned to my Finder sidebar) did not bring up the Dropbox menu options.   After further investigation I realized that...
Delete
Desktop
Sync
  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    3 years ago

    Hey willit63, welcome to our Community! 

     

    Feel free to have a look into this thread, which can answer why this change took place.

     

    If you have any questions, let me know. 

johannes_b's avatar
johannes_b
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

If this is the price for having on demand sync, I'd rather not have it.

I'm perfectly fine with choosing In my preferences which folders to manually sync.

I've started to use a Synology and there you still have the option to opt out of the selective sync.

Since the selective sync doesn't play well with apps that reference other files it's useless to me anyway.

best regards

Johannes

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