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Forum Discussion
Move Dropbox from C:// drive to D:// drive.
In order o work more comfortably,
I would like to release C:// drive from Dropbox sync and instead starting using drive D://.
Which the process path ?
1/ Unsync
2/ Uninstall DB
3/ Reinstal...
Megan
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staff
Hi Megan,
Thank you for your feedback.
Actually it works fine, at least it started copying the content from C:// to D:// properly. Unfortunately the copy was taking hours and, at a certain point of time, the PC felt asleep or turned on Stdand-by or the connection was disrupted at about 50% of the transfer process time.
The challenge is that I am (Dropbox is) till using the old C://user/xxx/ drive as reference ... and I already modified & add a couple of files since the hold/stop event. :-S
Last night, I tried to re-launched the same process (Dropbox App> Account> Preferences> Sync>Move ... but this time I am receiving an error message "This folder already contains a Dropbox directory" ... 😕
But the things is that D:// is not fully filled with content... I can only find the folders and few files "not in sync".
Question: How I can re-start/complete the transfer operation?
Thx
Gabriel
- Megan
Hey GabDun, I see, thanks for the info!
I would personally rename the Dropbox folder in the 😧 drive to something irrelevant, and then start the process again.
Once everything is complete, you can then remove the old Dropbox folder, and keep the current one.
Thx Megan and Rich,
The migration went well and I can now have access to the new "D://Dropbox" location.
Prudent I haven't deleted the "D://Dropbox_OLD" folder.
The reason is that I still see an active copy of all my content in the C://User/removed/Dropbox drive (?)
What shall I do to ensure that the C:// drive can be smartly released from all those files, eliminate redundancy of location?
(I will proceed with deleting "Dropbox_OLD" on the nes D:// drive only at the end of the process.
Thx for your advise.
Gabriel
