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Dropbox changed location, now lots of "conflicted copies".
A couple of days ago Dropbox updated itself by moving my Dropbox files to ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox. Ever since then, I'm seeing all kinds of duplicate folders that have "conflicted copy" in th...
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for clarifying, Robert F.41.
I understand you're referring to the file system change, due to updating your Dropbox Business team to the newer version.
I do understand your frustration over this and will make sure that your comments are passed along to our team.
I would suggest that you take a look at this article for more info on this update and if you have more questions, please let us know.
Hi Stuart, I spoke to Dropbox support about this exact issue and they said it's expected and unavoidable with the new update to the Dropbox Team system. Now, all files and non-team folders need to be placed in your "member folder" so everything that was directly in the root folder before is affected. It sucks but looks like there's nothing to do.
yes; i also read all the checklists before the update. I have also reread it. I have seen no advantages to having changed the paths and ruining all of our existing bookmarks, shortcuts, links, etc.
Another item that is affecting us is that the path to many files is very long. Dropbox wants to put the root sync folder into our windows user directory. I suppose there are some advantages to that but I am not sure what they are. Can you please explain? Because from our standpoint it simply makes the path very long. Also the root folder is named "my long company name TEAM" which also makes it long.
Is there any way to rename the root folder to something like c:\db.
The other reason we want this is that it is nice if all of the paths inside our company are the same. Then we can share common links. The reason we like to work in windows explorer instead of the web browser is due to many of the apps we use. We cannot simply open all our files in a "browser." We use special applications. So it is inconvenient to send dropbox links within the company. We can reach the file but in the end we prefer to be inside our windows explorer in the actual OS and not in the browser. Does this make sense why this is a problem for us?
The other problem with the browser is that Dropbox does not show the full path name in the browser. You only get to see part of it and this makes it hard to understand in what folder you are searching or browsing. I am trying to use Dropbox the way it was intended but sometimes I feel that I need workarounds.
Please let me know any advice or helpful tips you can offer.
- Hannah
Hey Stuart M.12, thanks for taking the time to post your feedback about this.
I will make sure your comments are passed along to our team and if you need anything else, please let us know.
