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Moving My Documents *OUT* of dropbox
The "My Documents" folder under my username on a Windows 7 machine appears to have disappeared and been subsumed by dropbox. This is a big problem for me as I never store documents in "My Documents"...
...there's no other application I can think of that would automatically move the My Documents folder to dropbox.
As I've said, Dropbox has no functionality to do this.
However, you're quite welcome to open a support ticket and have Dropbox Support verify the fact of the matter.
Open your ticket here: https://www.dropbox.com/support
Track your ticket here: https://dropbox.zendesk.com
Replies take approximately 1 - 3 business days with Pro users getting priority (longer for Basic users).
I can find no instructions anywhere to move My Documents back to it's original location...
I'm afraid it's a bit beyond the scope of this forum, but maybe this might provide a starting point:
http://scottiestech.info/2014/11/11/repair-missing-user-folders-in-windows-7/
Sorry that I can't be of more help in this instance.
Dropbox has no such functionality.
I'm sorry but it must have as there's no other application I can think of that would automatically move the My Documents folder to dropbox. I would not be asking this question if I had created a symbolic link or moved My Documents to point to dropbox. Perhaps it was a bug in an older version as I have had dropbox on this laptop for some 2-3 years. My dropbox folder is on my d: drive whereas windows is running from my c: drive.
Thank you for the link. I know how to move it back however in order to do so, you have to be able to right click on the 'My documents' folder which as I mentioned before is nowhere to be found on my compuer! Even my user files folder (shell:UsersFilesFolder) has no My Documents but does have a dropbox folder (whose properties are not available for editing).
Doesn't the above provide proof that dropbox did move the 'My Documents' folder? The only other issue I could think of is if Windows automatically moved My Documents when I added a sub directory of Dropbox to the library but this was a folder within dropbox so how would Windows just move My documents to Dropbox?
I can find no instructions anywhere to move My Documents back to it's original location if you cannot view the properties of the folder.
Thanks again
