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Hi,
Is there a simple procedure for moving my Dropbox account and folders to a new computer without downloading the whole lot? It will be deleted from the old computer.
Cheers Kevin.
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Thanks Hanna,
I only have a mobile phone hot spot for internet access with a limited data allowance. I am trying to avoid downloading about 3gig of data. Will cost me a fortune in excess data. Must be a simple data copying process to get this done?
Kevin
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Thanks Hanna,
Your second suggestion make a lot of sense, and is exactly what I did with my OneDrive folder without any issue. However, when tried with DropBox, would not work. It insisted on downloading the cloud files in order to transfer to the external HDD.
While DropBox has many good features, this shortcoming in making life quite difficult to do a PC upgrade. It is now making me lean toward going fully OneDrive to avoid this issue again in 3 years time.
Jay
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Do you have a friend with unlimited data who can then copy it to your phone?
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