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rvenes
Explorer | Level 4
6 months ago

Dropbox can't start after I moved hard drive to a new computer.

Hello!     I have physically moved my Dropbox hard drive to a new-old computer.  I had this hard drive in my main computer, and now moved it to my 2nd home computer and wanted to install Dropbox ...
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    6 months ago

    Hey rvenes - sorry to jump in here, but at this point I'd suggest a clean, advanced reinstall where you'd be able to point your Dropbox folder to your desired drive and select the folders you'd like to be synced on your new computer.

     

    Let us know how it goes!

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rvenes
Explorer | Level 4

That worked. 

I had to download the offline installer, because the normal installer didnt want to download for some reason.  I also had to choose  a few days earlier version of the dropbox installer.   But its working now, and i assume it will autoupdate to the lastest one. 

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Megan
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6 months ago

Awesome news rvenes!

 

If you need anything else, we'll be one post away, so let us know! 😎

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