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Forum Discussion
Is it no longer possible to pick my existing Dropbox folder when installing the app?
In the past I was able to install dropbox and with the advance settings I was able to use and existing dropbox directory - -- has that changed? do I have to have dropbox download thousands of files that already exist on the computer?
- Rich
Super User II
In the past I was able to install dropbox and with the advance settings I was able to use and existing dropbox directory - -- has that changed?
No, that hasn't changed, but Dropbox will still need to index all of your files and that will take time, especially if you have a lot of data, and it will appear to be uploading and downloading during that process, but it will only be sending comparison data and any changes that it finds.
have a large Dropbox folder --- over 80,000 files so I copied it from my old computer to the new --- since it is large, I have it on a second internal drive and in this case it at
E:\dropbos
I was using the offline installer and when noted that it should allocate the Dropbox folder at E: it came back and told me the E:\dropbox existed and I could pick a new location or have the installer rename --- it did and now is it "e:\Dropbox (old)" and then it created a new e:\dropbox folder ---
and to top all off, it did not let me decide and allocated my entire db folder in the cloud --- I had to use the file explorer to set the option to set "offline access"
