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Choosing my Dropbox folder location and renaming it as well
I'm using Windows 11. My C drive is an SSD (solid-state drive) with limited space and my D drive is a 1 TB HDD (hard disk). Dropbox wants to put its folder on the C: drive. I'm trying to change it to D:\myusername-dropbox (where myusername is my user name). But when I go to Advanced Settings and choose "Other" to select that folder, Dropbox insists on making the path D:\myusername-dropbox\Dropbox. I don't want the longer path with the Dropbox folder as a subfolder. I also don't want D:\Dropbox because I want to include myusername (the computer has several users).
How can I put the Dropbox folder at exactly D:\myusername-dropbox ? Thanks.
Hi JJ777, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
As you've discovered, it isn't possible to rename the Dropbox folder itself.
However, you can place it inside the 'D:\myusername' folder, and it will automatically create the Dropbox folder within there.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
After thinking about it more, I guess I could make a folder D:\myusername and let Dropbox use the folder D:\myusername\Dropbox. (This is a new computer; I'm not used to having a small C drive.) But I'd still like to know how to choose the exact Dropbox folder location. Thanks.
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi JJ777, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
As you've discovered, it isn't possible to rename the Dropbox folder itself.
However, you can place it inside the 'D:\myusername' folder, and it will automatically create the Dropbox folder within there.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
Hello Jay, I tried to move the folder to my 😧 drive on windows 11, and it says its being used by another program. Closed everything and still having the problem.
I am successfully running dropbox in my computer, partially syncing the files I want. But I don't want to use my C: drive as I'm running out of space.
Could you please add a more detailed explanation on how to do this?
Many thanks,
CAH
