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Transferring dropbox drive from one computer to another
I have a Dropbox Professional account (3 TB of storage) and am using about 630 GB of it. I have two desktop computers that both have Dropbox on them. Computer 1 has Dropbox on an internal hard drive, Computer 2 has Dropbox on an external hard drive. The internal drive on Computer 1 has failed. Can I unplug the external drive on Computer 2 and plug it into Computer 1 and tell Dropbox to use the external drive, so I don't have to re-download all of my files? If that could work, could I also just reassign the same drive letter to the external drive as I used for the internal drive and have Dropbox keep working the way it always did?
Hi Tom G.43, thanks for messaging the Community.
It wouldn't be possible to use the same external drive which already has a Dropbox folder on it, since the folder would be associated to the original computer.
You'd need either use a different external drive entirely, or create a new Dropbox folder on that external drive, in a different subfolder, for the files to sync there (meaning you'd have twice the storage usage on the drive).
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi Tom G.43, thanks for messaging the Community.
It wouldn't be possible to use the same external drive which already has a Dropbox folder on it, since the folder would be associated to the original computer.
You'd need either use a different external drive entirely, or create a new Dropbox folder on that external drive, in a different subfolder, for the files to sync there (meaning you'd have twice the storage usage on the drive).
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
