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peterjj12346
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Can't move my Dropbox folder to another drive
I have a Mac Pro running 10.11.6. I have five internal drives in my Mac Pro, all traditional Mac OS Journaled (etc.). I'm retiring one of my internal drives, one that my Dropbox files are stored on, ...
- 8 years ago
Hey peterjj12346,
Thanks for the swift reply!
I was able to locate your open request and I can see that a colleague has followed-up, asking more details on the case, so that you proceed to resolution. Please check your inbox for their message and let me know if you can't find their reply.
Cheers,
JaneA
DaveC2
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
The application need not reside on C:\program files\dropbox , but it does install there end of story.
So what you do is move it afterwards, creating a symlink folder back to that location, so the updater wont add it back there on you. As such leave it running from the symlink location so it doesnt know any better :-P.
Additionally you need to also move the %localappdata%\dropbox and symlink that folder back to where it was as the DB app is hardwired to use that location.
The actual DROPBOX folder should be moved to its new location via the DB app move folder option, and should not be symlinked.
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