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My local drive has a Documents folder. I have a Documents folder in Dropbox. If I move a file that is located on my local Desktop into the Documents folder in Dropbox should it automatically copy that file to my local Documents folder as well?
Hi @47jimc
No - Dropbox doesnt work like that I'm afraid. Unless you have linked everything together and moved the directories in to Dropbox they wont sync.
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Hi @47jimc
No - Dropbox doesnt work like that I'm afraid. Unless you have linked everything together and moved the directories in to Dropbox they wont sync.
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