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I can't select my existing Dropbox folder upon signing into the v209.3.3519 Dropbox app.
Dear all,
During installation I would like Dropbox to re-use the copy of dropbox folder which I have locally, but when I try to point dropbox installator to that location (D:\Dropbox in my case), i...
Horrible 😱 First of all I cannot not do it easily, as some files from Dropbox folder are used/locked (hence cannot rename folder to _OLD).
Second, I would need to wait until Dropbox synchronizes tons of gigabytes of data just to overwrite them with another tons of gigabytes. No way 😪 as I need to free disk space for that.
Nancy
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staffdma_k, can you just select your D drive as the destination path in your Advanced settings instead of D:\Dropbox? Do you still get the same error after that?
If you remember, installator only allows you to choose the "parent" folder, which is D:\ in my case, and it adds Dropbox to it automatically. So you cannot customize the name of Dropbox folder – it is a fixed name.
- Megan
Hey dma_k, when you click the Dropbox folder location, you can choose the parent folder of the already established Dropbox folder. For example, if you have your Dropbox folder in the path "D:\OtherDrive\Folder\Team Name Dropbox", you'll want to select the folder "D:\OtherDrive\Folder".
Did you you choose D:\Dropbox or simply your 😧 path?
I have selected "D:\", and installer appended "Dropbox" automatically. I cannot change it.
There is "D:\Dropbox\.dropbox.cache\", "D:\Dropbox\.dropbox" (and other special files) inside that folder, created by Dropbox earlier. To make a story complete: I have uninstalled Dropbox and installed it again and now stalled because merge function does not work, but I remember it working before (this is not the first time I do that).
