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My Documents folder has been moved to Dropbox somehow even after uninstalling it. Can you help?
Original objective seemed trivial. Wanted to download a copy of my old files from the Dropbox cloud down to a different computer. After several attempts and a lot of time, I was unable to do that fro...
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
shanen0 wrote:
Apparently this was created in the installation process ... but I don't care much about figuring out such incompetence.
You enabled the computer backup feature during the installation process. Reinstall Dropbox, allow everything to sync, then go into Dropbox Options and you can disable the feature.
My goodness, that is a gawdawful solution and I certainly had no intention of creating such a gawdawful mess. I never would have enabled such a feature on a computer with such a large disk capacity and there should have been a sanity check warning me not to do it. Did your marketing geniuses think this would encourage some people to sign up after the suckers were trapped? With hindsight it does explain some of the peculiarities I noticed at the time, but it actually makes my opinion of Dropbox worse, so I cannot count it as a good solution. I actually think the idea was sort of good, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions, eh?
I'm actually afraid to try to fix it that way. The closest thing to a proper solution would be a specialized tool to fix the broken state you created, but I guess I have no free choice but to try to do it your way. It would take too long to try to figure out what else you mangled without asking me...
