Reinstallation of Dropbox after clean install of OS, without Re-downloading all files

[Sandhu]

Dear Community 

Greetings,

I had to make a clean install of Mac OS, prior to which i copied all my dropbox folder to an external HD. 

I need to reinstall/download the dropbox on my machine but I want to avoid downloading all the files through internet again, as i already have them in my external HD. 

Is it possible to copy all the dropbox content back into the new dropbox folder offline, and when I go online, dropbox only syncs new changes made during the period it was uninstalled from the machine. I do not want a selective sync in particular, but i want that after reinstallation all my contents are updated via offline copying, and at the same time, the dropbox is synced to catch new changes.

The goal is to save downloading time and internet cost for downloading huge data. 

It does not making sense for me that dropbox download all the contents again from the server to my machine,

kindly suggest. 

[Mohamed Sobah]

Will all the previous shared links work after reinstalling Dropbox?

[Walter]

Hi @Mohamed Sobah; welcome to our Community and thanks for joining our discussion.

To cut immediately to the chase, yes, your shared links will still work normally and won't be affected at all when/if you reinstall our apps on any of your devices. 

Let me know if you have any more questions!