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paulafm
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4 months ago

Need help migrating to a new Mac using the Apple Migration Assistant

Apple Migration Assistant is by far the smartest and fasted way to set up a new Mac . It requires deleting Dropbox and all the stored files and folders from the 'old' Mac' to prevent Dropbox-issues. ...
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Jay
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4 months ago

Hi @paulafm, thanks for posting today.

 

In general, the only method we recommend is by allowing the Dropbox desktop application to sync the files normally from the site down to your machine.

 

Using the Apple Migration Assistant, or having files in another profile and moving them into your live Dropbox folder, could result in data corruption, incorrect permissions, and other unexpected events.

 

If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

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