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[JWL Photo]

@Michael B.10 : Any old (downloaded) files will stay on your computer and you will need to remove them. Any new ones will need to be re-downloaded. It’s not a simple “move”, which is inefficient, at best. At least once you get it done the first time, it should keep it synced from there.

[Michael B.10]

@JWL Photo 

Thanks.

All my files are downloaded, nothing is cloud-only, so in my case it will be a matter of downloading a fresh copy of everything. 

[JWL Photo]

Just to clarify, though … the resyncing will happen in ANY case (even if it works on its own).

So, no matter what, in your case, you will be downloading everything …

[Michael B.10]

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@JWL Photo wrote:

Just to clarify, though … the resyncing will happen in ANY case (even if it works on its own).

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Yes. Doing the first sync is in effect doing a fresh download. 

I wonder if you are implying that I could move the contents of ~/Dropbox to ~/Library/Cloudstorage ....and then Dropbox would of course re-sync everything but it would be faster than downloading a fresh set. 

I am going to do this tomorrow, but getting my ducks in a row.

[Michael B.10]

BTW I am favouring the fresh download approach rather than seeding the new location by moving my files. 

[JWL Photo]

Sorry. No. There is no way that I know of to “move” anything. What will happen is that you will have to resync/DL everything to your cloud storage, then you can delete the files from your old site. Like I said … inefficient.

[Michael B.10]

@JWL Photo 

Decided I would do it this evening and it all worked as discussed.

I used version 148.2.1667. 

Currently all is being downloaded, which I had to initiate ....the default state was to be cloud only.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Now to see what DEVONthink and Moneydance make of it!

[jekratz]

DEVONthink works fine. Least it did for me. at the end of the day its just another location on the disk.  Tho in my case I only indexed a folder in there, I didnt store the database itself there.  but again...its just another location.

[Michael B.10]

@jekratz Thanks, yes reading around there shouldn't be a problem with DEVONthink but I haven't been clear whether DEVONthink links with its indexed files automagically, or whether I will have to change anything, even reindex them in the new location. 

I am still waiting for my download to complete, and don't want to investigate anything until Dropbox has finished.

BTW You mentioned putting DEVONthink database itself on Dropbox. This is an absolute no-no. You have to use a syncstore..... which is what you must be doing if you are syncing without having the database itself on Dropbox. 

[Michael B.10]

I have now sorted DEVONthink and Moneydance successfully.

Moneydance was a matter of changing the sync method to select the new location for the syncstore. (The app will need changing because you cant just select the "Dropbox Folder" method anymore.

DEVONthink I actually created new Databases and pointed them at the new location. I could probably could have reindexed the old databases, but felt easier and cleaner to create new.

I also had to change the location of my family tree app (Reunion), but that was straightforward.

Moneydance and Reunion on the iPad and iPhone syncing weren't affected as they use a different method. Not sure about DEVONthink To Go on the iDevices yet but don't anticipate a problem.