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Chaim's avatar
Chaim
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Moving the Dropbox folder

In the desktop app, it was simple to move the Dropbox folder to a different location (using Preferences). Now that it seems the desktop app is discontinued, I can't find any way to move the Dropbox folder at all. Is it possible? If so, how?! Thank you!


  • Chaim wrote:

    In the desktop app, it was simple to move the Dropbox folder to a different location (using Preferences). Now that it seems the desktop app is discontinued, I can't find any way to move the Dropbox folder at all. Is it possible? If so, how?! Thank you!


    The desktop app hasn't been discontinued; just the portion of it that allowed you to manage your files within the app. The app itself still very much exists and is accessible as it always has been. You'll see the Dropbox icon in your system tray (Windows) or menu bar (Mac). Click it to get the Dropbox menu, or right-click it for the legacy menu (easier to access Preferences). Once in Preferences, you'll find the option to move the Dropbox folder on the Sync tab.

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    Chaim wrote:

    In the desktop app, it was simple to move the Dropbox folder to a different location (using Preferences). Now that it seems the desktop app is discontinued, I can't find any way to move the Dropbox folder at all. Is it possible? If so, how?! Thank you!


    The desktop app hasn't been discontinued; just the portion of it that allowed you to manage your files within the app. The app itself still very much exists and is accessible as it always has been. You'll see the Dropbox icon in your system tray (Windows) or menu bar (Mac). Click it to get the Dropbox menu, or right-click it for the legacy menu (easier to access Preferences). Once in Preferences, you'll find the option to move the Dropbox folder on the Sync tab.

    • Chaim's avatar
      Chaim
      Helpful | Level 6

      Thank you for your reply, Rich, but I don't understand it. You wrote, "The app itself still very much exists and is accessible as it always has been. You'll see the Dropbox icon in your system tray (Windows) or menu bar (Mac). Click it to get the Dropbox menu, or right-click it for the legacy menu (easier to access Preferences)." However, the only effect of my left-clicking on the Dropbox icon in the system tray (using Windows) is opening Windows Explorer on the Dropbox folder. (This is the same effect of clicking on the Dropbox app in the Start Menu.) The only functionality this gives me is the regular file management of Explorer. Right-clicking has no effect at all. Either way, I see no way at all to access either the Dropbox menu or the Legacy menu, and I see no way at all to access Preferences.

      • Chaim's avatar
        Chaim
        Helpful | Level 6

        P.S. Thank you, Rich! Somehow, today (after rebooting), I was able to right-click the Dropbox icon in the system tray and access Preferences. I had the experience in the past that sometimes this worked and sometimes it didn't. The past couple of days, it fairly consistently didn't, so I figured it had to do with the elimination of the desktop app. Evidently, it's still hit and miss, and today it hit! Well, to be exact, it hit exactly once. I just tried right-clicking the Dropbox icon in the system tray, and again it had no effect at all. (And, again, left-clicking just opens Windows Explorer.) Weird.

    • swdirector's avatar
      swdirector
      New member | Level 2

      Does Dropbox have any plans to restore the Dropbox app that allowed you to view your files within dropbox. Being able to quickly find starred files and to pin files to the top was useful. It also more resembled what you could to on the iPhone and iPad. Without this feature, I am not sure what the benefit is using Dropbox over iCloud or other cloud storage options. It is very unfortunate the that Dropbox team decide to drop a valuable feature.

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