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Moving files out of Dropbox now defaults to the 'copy' function
Starting sometime this week, whenever I try to move a file out of my Dropbox to another location on the same drive, it will default to 'copy' and leave the original still in Dropbox. This duplication...
Hi Everybody,
Thanks for your patience while we looked into this. This change in behavior was the result of a change by Microsoft. Dragging a folder out of a root sync folder now defaults to the copy function on Windows 11. This change is not limited to Dropbox, but any root sync folder.
As a workaround, shift+click and drag will allow the expected cut + paste or "move folder" functionality.
Regards,
Ben
Megan
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for checking Questions13.
Since you noticed the same behavior even when our app is closed, then it might be unrelated to Dropbox.
Had it been the app causing this, then you wouldn't notice the same results when the app wasn't running.
Do you notice the same thing if you choose a file/folder within Dropbox, and then right click and choose cut instead of dragging and dropping it?
I considered that it might be independent of the Dropbox app but this literally is only happening to files in the Dropbox folder.
The cut function works normally. Likewise, if I hold Shift while dragging a file to force a 'move', it works as well.
