We're making changes to the Community, so you may have received some notifications - thanks for your patience and welcome back. Learn more here.

Forum Discussion

pfgoergen's avatar
pfgoergen
Explorer | Level 3
7 months ago

Updates I make to my Documents folder don't sync to Dropbox.

Trying to understand how Dropbox should work. I'm using Win10.   I typically save all my documents in my c:\Users\xxxxx\Documents folder.    When I attempt to sync my documents by using the w...
  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    7 months ago

    Nancy wrote:

    If yes, then you can follow these steps to use our Dropbox Backup feature.


    If the intent is to just sync the Documents folder then it's probably better to just use the option built in to Windows to move the folder into the Dropbox folder. It accomplishes the same thing as the "Backup" option and if they start using the legacy Backup option now and then later get upgraded to Dropbox Beta, their files will be moved out of the regular Dropbox folder structure and into the Backup area.

     

    IMHO

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!