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Can I link my old Dropbox folder again to my account after moving to a new device?
I am a DropBox Pro user since many years. Lightning destroyed my W7 PC where I had a partition đ§ with a folder named DropBox. The folder was replicated and syncronized with the DropBox cloud.
Now ...
Hi Nancy, checking the syncing icons next to file names what i could not do up to now, there were only the dreaded Xes. Now however, I have taken the drastic measure and simply uninstalled onedrive, and that seems to have cured this problem. So, for the moment at least, DropBox is starting to look familiar again. Next will be to change the local DropBox location from C:\Users\.... to somewhere else more convienient. Many thanks for you all for your help solving this đ
Nancy
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHope itâs OK to jump in too, LaEi! Have you already logged in to the desktop app, after installing Dropbox on your new device?
If not, and you wish to relink your old Dropbox folder to your current account, then you can do this while signing back in to the desktop app. Before selecting the option to create a new Dropbox folder, you should be able to see an âAdvanced Settingsâ link; please click there and choose the location of your existing Dropbox folder. For example, if your Dropbox folder is located at âD:\OtherDrive\Folder\Dropboxâ, choose âD:\OtherDrive\Folderâ.
This way, the Dropbox app will only reindex your existing files and it won't resync everything from the start. Keep in mind though what Rich mentioned above about the 300k soft limit, as this could potentially cause syncing issues at any point (in which case, you can use selective sync to remove any folders you don't need synced locally on the app).
Hi Nancy, and well come to the discussion.
First the current situation: Running W10 I see no DropBox in the system tray. All (?) my DropBox files are visible under c:/User etc..., but all files are still marked with an X, so not much seems to have happened since yesterday.
I am also a bit puzzled with the 300000 files limit. I have a 1 Tbyte flash disk so this should not be a problem?
Right clicking on any arbitrary file in the DroBox folder, I notice something called "Make available offline". Does this mean that the DropBox files are offline by default? Is this the reason behind the X marking? Making a file available does not make the familiar "synced" marking to appear though.
Then to the DropBox app. As far as I can discover, I have no DropBox app visible anywhere. Where should it be and what should it look like?
Clicking the DropBox link produces nothing on the screen. The link point to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client\Dropbox.exe" /home
- Walter
Hey LaEi - could you send us a screenshot of the X marking you mentioned so that we can have a visual too?
Also, can you send us another screenshot showing your system tray?
When it comes to making files online-only or available offline, you can have a look here.
Here is a examples of the peculiar X markings. As can be seen, only files are marked this way, but not folders.
and here is what I believe is the system tray
The link regarding offline files states that these files are also locally stored, but it does not explicitly say whether they are synced or not, i.e. if I update one of these offline files, will that file be updated in the DropBox cloud also?
