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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...
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.
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.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
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.
Yeh, thanks! That was my idea too!
Was just hoping there would be a less involved solution.
