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This folder already contains a Dropbox directory. (Dropbox 3.03 on Fedora 21 (x64)
Is this some kind of a joke? I keep my dropbox folder on a separate partition to simply redirect the dropbox daemon to that location and not have to go through the whole download process all over aga...
- Uninstall Dropbox if it's installed. Rename your existing Dropbox folder to Dropbox_OLD or similar. Reinstall Dropbox and select the location that you want for the Dropbox folder. Keep in mind that external drives are NOT recommended as data loss can occur under the right conditions. When the installation is finished, Dropbox will immediately start to sync. Pause syncing or exit Dropbox. Move the content of Dropbox_OLD into the newly created Dropbox folder. When the move is complete, and not before, resume syncing or re-launch Dropbox.
At this point Dropbox will begin indexing all of your files. This process will take a while, especially with 700GB of data to go through. During this time it may say that files are uploading or downloading, but it's only transferring comparison data and any changes that it find. be patient and LET IT WORK.
John L.2
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi Nathanel,
This is a known issue that we are working on fixing. Can you download 2.10.52 for now?
https://d1ilhw0800yew8.cloudfront.net/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-2.10.52.tar.gz
Thanks!
John
3 years later, this issue still exists. in my case on ubuntu. are you guys not ashamed to not be able to fix such a trivial issue for years?
what it should do
- user installs dropbox
- user changes dropbox folder
- app detects its this same users 'same dropbox'
- app just updates this dropbox
whats the difficulty to make this right?
Hi
I'm just a lame Windows user but the issue is the same. Previously I had no problems migrating my dropbox folder, now I installed a new disk and this piece of crap denied me from allocating my folder to the place I already copied my stuff to. I have 800+ Gbs of stuff, do you expect me to download all of it? Why does this have to create all this selective sync conflict? I just copied all the stuff from one HDD to another, how did all this files "changed"????? I can not find any differences with any duplicate finder app.
When installing I would like to see a simple question:
Do you have your crap already around or not?
Or an option before migrating to seal all folders and get the client prepared to move stuff.
Dammit guys I am paying a lot and my company is also paying a lot, don't be like G00gle.
I totally agree with Zoltan. This issue has been open for two years. I think Dropbox is doing great things, but this is a friggen no brainer. DB's sync alogorithm is obviously pretty **bleep** good, if it can do what it's doing now -- why not add this feature and make it complete? IMO, this is the single most important feature to be added. I pay a lot of money for this system, and I expect better sync capabilities. Just for the record, in the last two years, I have had to "move" my Dropbox three times. This means each time I have to wait hours for a resync... Come on, DB, get you s**t to gether!
WARNING: DO NOT USE this workaround unless you had all copies synced to be equal before switching the desktop client software.
If you have an outdated but previously synced dropbox folder without new files on the outdated client software you should rename/remove it and let the system download newest version of files. Otherwise it will merge your old folder with up to date version on dropbox which will duplicate files (if you have moved them from one location to another within dropbox)
