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Paul D.4
2 months agoHelpful | Level 7
Two Dropbox folders after migration from old Mac to new
A couple of days after I did my migration I noticed on the new Mac there are two dropbox folders, the one that should be syncing with my other devices is called “DropBox personal” however, after the ...
Paul D.4
Helpful | Level 7
the old MacBook pro is 10.14.6 Mojave, the new is Sonoma14.6
I wish it was easier to attach an image but as I went to change the dropbox folder location in prefs in the DropBox desktop app the prompt said "are you sure? This will move the dropbox folder and all the files inside from its current location” (which is the root level of my primary user account on the Mac} that would nest the dupe DB folder in “DropBox personal” which was the name of the syncing dropbox folder I used on the old MacBook and managed to successfully share with a recently purchased iPad. So somehow either the migration assistant or some unknown activity by DropBox created a duplicate folder in that Mac User account folder named plain "DropBox" So there's no point in me nesting the duplicate DB folder in what I want to be the correct legacy DropBox folder a.k.a. "DropBox personal" and doubling its size to boot.
DropBox version in the Application folder 208.4.5824
Can you give me more information as to what you seek when you ask about "the status of the dropbox desktop app as shown in the menu bar? There's a lot going on there but no notifications that I think are relevant.
Thanks,
Paul
Paul D.4
2 months agoHelpful | Level 7
Though having 2 dropbox folders on the new MacBook post migration was anonymous and troubling, I think I figured things out. Walter your reply helped me in so far as I did go to the Security page and saw there was activity on both MacBook devices which made me think there was synchronizing happening.
The upshot seems to be that the he legacy dropbox folder on the older Mac named "DropBox personal" is still valid and synchronizing to the new MacBook. The confusing gotcha is that the synchronizing is happening between differently named folders, on the new it’s named plain “DropBox.” The one named "DropBox personal" on the new MacBook is simply an extra copy and not being synchronized with anything and destined to be deleted once I’m absolutely sure.
The other thing that helped me understand this is it when I go to the root level of my Mac’s user folder there's a little checkbox to the right of the active valid DropBox which had me run some tests to see that while differently named… the respective dropbox folders are syncing. Hope this makes sense and is helpful to others.
Thanks again Walter.
Paul
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