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WaltFreedman
12 months agoHelpful | Level 5
I have Win11 Home up to date. Have spent hours trying to Sync with no luck.
I have Win11 Home up to date. Have spent hours trying to Sync with no luck. I have the following conclusion. Am I correct?
Win11 Home does not have Sync ability to Dropbox Cloud. Installing ...
- 12 months ago
I've just realised its just a Circular reference. Just never seen anything like it before. So I am going ahead and Accepting as Solution.
WaltFreedman
Helpful | Level 5
Jay - I mis-remembered . Its like this:
Open File Explorer and open the Dropbox folder which contains my files and a Desktop folder
Open Desktop folder - and it has a second Dropbox folder
Open that Dropbox and see my files and again a Desktop folder.
Open that Desktop folder and again my files with a Dropbox folder....... on and on at least down 3 levels at which point I stopped
So its alternating Dropbox .. Desktop..Dropbox..Desktop- down an apparent "chain".
No - NOT using Dropbox for Backup/Restore. Using Google. On Dropbox, I just have a few personal files that I share with my son - we live in 2 different countries thousands of miles apart.
WaltFreedman
12 months agoHelpful | Level 5
Also, on every level, the Properties are the same, both for the Dropbox folder and the Desktop folder.
C:\Users\Administrator\Dropbox
- WaltFreedman12 months agoHelpful | Level 5
More info: If I click on Dropbox in File Explorer in any of the "multiple" levels, it highlights Dropbox box on the Primary level. Same for Desktop. And same if I click on the Black left arrow top left of File Explorer. So while the levels appear to be an ongoing cascading "Chain" it is not.
Is there a software Fix to this confusing issue?
- WaltFreedman12 months agoHelpful | Level 5
By Primary level in above, I mean the respective box item in the File Explorer Side Bar.
- WaltFreedman12 months agoHelpful | Level 5
I've just realised its just a Circular reference. Just never seen anything like it before. So I am going ahead and Accepting as Solution.
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