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Desktop Application Will Not Allow Existing Dropbox Folder to Be Used. Error: "The folder already contains a Dropbox directory."
I have been a happy user of Dropbox for years. Until recently . . .
Dropbox recently quit working properly. The latest issue today was that it failed to load the "platform plugin windows." The ...
You should not select the Dropbox folder but the folder you wish Dropbox to be placed in. Then it will be installed in that folder.
If its on a 2nd drive and not in a folder, simply select the Drive in the chooser window.
At least this is what I am thinking based upon your post. I made this same issue at first when trying to move Dropbox all those years ago.
The installer will let you choose the location. It on the last screen before it closes under the advanced settings. Many users myself included think Dropbox was already being installed in the default location at this point in the process but it was still waiting.
Rich R: "Dropbox does not support external, networked or removable drives."
Why would you say that? Dropbox maps to a drive letter and it doesn't care whether that letter is an internal drive, a thumb drive, an external drive, a virtual file container, or otherwise. Dropbox certainly "supports" these drives, in the sense that the Dropbox application will work with them (which is the normal usage of the term in this context).
If you simply mean that Dropbox, as a company, does not recommend using such drives and warns that you could lose data if the drive is not set up properly (say, you forgot to plug in your thumb drive and then you tried to sync), then, yes, you might not get a lot of "support" from Dropbox as a company in that case.
But the application definitely supports (will run with) external, removable, networked, and even virtual drives.
