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Create a symlink between the pre-updated Dropbox and post-updated Dropbox.
Dropbox made some major updates from April 2024 that affects our team's workflow regarding file directory. We're using Windows and a lot of our projects are linked to the old Dropbox (Team's Name) di...
- Hello Grey28,
Yes, that will work. If I got this right, you need to have the files accessible through the old path. For new users you can recreate the old Dropbox folder path as a junction link (use mklink in an administrative command prompt for that) to the new Dropbox path. It won’t affect the functioning of Dropbox in any way, since the link is outside of the Dropbox folder and is only used to maintain the old paths.
Hope this gives you the courage to try it.
Andrew (DBoxTips)
Yes Mark, they are at the original position so it was D:\Dropbox (TeamName) and that's exactly what we need to recreate and maintain our linked directory for all the project files. The current one is synced at D:\Dropbox TeamName\MyName. I went googling on Microsoft too but wanna check if anyone tried it out here
Hello Grey28,
Yes, that will work. If I got this right, you need to have the files accessible through the old path. For new users you can recreate the old Dropbox folder path as a junction link (use mklink in an administrative command prompt for that) to the new Dropbox path. It won’t affect the functioning of Dropbox in any way, since the link is outside of the Dropbox folder and is only used to maintain the old paths.
Hope this gives you the courage to try it.
Andrew (DBoxTips)
Yes, that will work. If I got this right, you need to have the files accessible through the old path. For new users you can recreate the old Dropbox folder path as a junction link (use mklink in an administrative command prompt for that) to the new Dropbox path. It won’t affect the functioning of Dropbox in any way, since the link is outside of the Dropbox folder and is only used to maintain the old paths.
Hope this gives you the courage to try it.
Andrew (DBoxTips)
- Oh this works perfectly, thank you
