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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
Just as a bump, there's another user that is also experiencing this issue.
BenDBX
Community Manager
Community ManagerHi Questions13 and shin7,
I've notified our engineering team and they are investigating. I'll provide updates here and follow up with any questions we may have. Thanks for reporting this!
Regards,
Ben
Same problem here. Windowns 11 Pro 23H2
It's like all of a sudden windows is treating the dropbox folder like a server share folder and not a local folder which would be typical how a server share behaves.
