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mlon
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Drive letter change in small team to same drive letter.

Hey there,   i would like some advice on what is the best practice to change the drive letter on a few workstations to the same drive letter. Currently we have a few workstations with a team dr...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 years ago
    mlon wrote:

    Since we are not moving anyting (no new drives etc.) but we like to standardize all the workstations to have the same Dropbox path.

    What you're trying to do really isn't supported by Dropbox (change an existing drive letter while Dropbox is installed on that drive) and it has no way to make such a change. Your best and safest option would probably be to uninstall the Dropbox application, change the drive letter, then reinstall Dropbox being sure to specify the new location in the Advanced Options during the install.

  • mlon's avatar
    mlon
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    Hey Rich,

     

    thank you for your reply but that is not what i want to do.

    I am familiar with moving dropbox to another location.

     

    What i want to do i change the drive letter Dropbox is allready on.

    And have all the workstations have the same Dropbox path X:

     

    What will happen if i turn off the Dropbox app, change the drive letter

    and turn the app back on? Will it find the Dropbox folder now located in X: ?

     

    mlon

     

     

     

    • Rich's avatar
      Rich
      Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
      2 years ago
      mlon wrote:

      What will happen if i turn off the Dropbox app, change the drive letter and turn the app back on? Will it find the Dropbox folder now located in X:?

      Best case scenario is that it would simply prevent Dropbox from working as it wouldn't be able to find the Dropbox folder. Worst case scenario is it would see the missing Dropbox folder as a deletion, and start to delete files from the account online, such as what can happen when the Dropbox folder is on an external drive and the drive isn't connected when Dropbox starts.

      • mlon's avatar
        mlon
        Explorer | Level 4
        2 years ago

        So what would be the best thing to do?

        Since we are not moving anyting (no new drives etc.) but we like to

        standardize all the workstations to have the same Dropbox path.

         

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