You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

Forum Discussion

47jimc's avatar
47jimc
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

New File Sync

My local drive has a Documents folder.  I have a Documents folder in Dropbox.  If I move a file that is located on my local Desktop into the Documents folder in Dropbox should it automatically copy that file to my local Documents folder as well?  

desktop
sync
  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    2 years ago

    Hi 47jimc 

     

    No - Dropbox doesnt work like that I'm afraid. Unless you have linked everything together and moved the directories in to Dropbox they wont sync.

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    2 years ago

    Hi 47jimc 

     

    No - Dropbox doesnt work like that I'm afraid. Unless you have linked everything together and moved the directories in to Dropbox they wont sync.

About Create, upload, and share

Find help to solve issues with creating, uploading, and sharing files and folders in Dropbox. Get support and advice from the Dropbox Community.

Need more support

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X or Facebook.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!