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Change Dropbox folder location
Hi, I am using Dropbox Plus on a Win7-PC. Since my C:/-drive ran out of space, I wanted to change the Dropbox location to F:/. This worked, but Dropbox created a subfolder also named Dropbox. I am no...
- When you move the folder via the option in the preferences, Dropbox moves the folder automatically without you having to do anything. The best course of action is probably to move it somewhere outside of all of that.
Move it somewhere like F:\Temp (it creates a Dropbox folder, so this will put it in F:\Temp\Dropbox), let it move everything, and wait until it's synced. From there, if anything is left in F:\Dropbox, make copies if you wish, or delete it (but make absolute sure it's fully synced to F:\Temp first!!), and then once you have that completely gone - that is, you've completely deleted F:\Dropbox, not just emptied it - go back into the Dropbox client preferences, and change the location back to F:\, which should create the F:\Dropbox folder, and move everything over.
Once everything has then synced back to F:\Dropbox, you can delete the F:\Temp folder if it still remains.
Hi, I have an SSD and a hard drive on my laptop. The SSD is the C drive and contains the WIN OS as usual. Dropbox appears to default to C:users/X/Dropbox when installed. My SSD drive is now overloaded by the size of the Dropbox folder and I want to move it from the C drive to the D hard drive.
This answer looks like it might be the solution but I cannot find "the option in the preferences" you refer to or "the Dropbox client preferences" you refer to in your answer. The only preferences option I can find is that shown in the attached photo and none of those tabs have anything of this kind.
Can you confirm I'm on the right track with this way of moving the Dropbox folder from C to D drive. And if so steer me to the way to do it?
Thanks in advance.
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIYou're looking at the Preferences for your forum account; not the Dropbox application.
