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Alan41
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Migrating to a new PC

I have bought a new PC and migrated all the files from my old PC to my new one.  I had Dropbox on my old machine, and had synced all my local files onto it. I want to do the same on my new machine....
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Jay
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
2 years ago

Hi Alan41, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

When you migrated the files across, did you copy them into a Dropbox folder you created, or onto another location?

 

Are you requesting that the Dropbox desktop application detects your migrated files to prevent re-syncing the same files again?

 

This will help me to assist further!

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    Alan41
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    I migrated the files from the C Drive on my old computer to the C Drive on my new computer. I had synced the files from my old computer to Dropbox, and now want to sync any new files that I add to my new C Drive to that image on Dropbox. 

    Does that make sense?

     

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    Alan41
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    So, yes I want  the Dropbox desktop application to detect your migrated files to prevent re-syncing the same files again?

    • Jay's avatar
      Jay
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      2 years ago

      Do you have a custom location for the Dropbox folder, or did you leave it as the default location?

      • Alan41's avatar
        Alan41
        Explorer | Level 4
        2 years ago

        No, I have a number of folders, and some individual files, in my default Dropbox location.

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