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camsul
2 years agoExplorer | Level 4
In Dropbox for MacOS, the Dropbox folder appears two places
I have MacOS Ventura 13.3.1 and the new Dropbox for MacOS has shifted my Dropbox folder to ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox. However, it left in place my previous Dropbox folder at ~/Dropbox. In Find...
Hannah
2 years agoDropbox Staff
Hey camsul, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Can you please hover your mouse over the Dropbox icon in your menu bar, to check if the migration has finished?
If so, is the sync status of the app "up to date"? And which version of the Dropbox app do you have installed?
Keep me posted.
- camsul2 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I have version 172.4.7555, and it says it is up to date. There is no mention about the migration.
- Megan2 years agoDropbox Staff
Hi camsul, could you send me some screenshots of the folder as it appears in your Finder?
- camsul2 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Here are screenshots of the two folders.
If I use "get info", the one at ~/Dropbox says it's an alias, so it shouldn't be taking up double the space. So I guess that answers my question.
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