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jakercd530
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2 years ago
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I can't move my dropbox folder to external hard drive

Hi, I just bought a new computer and the hard drive is smaller than my dropbox and like to have my dropbox on my computer since it is faster to open and save files to it. I went back to best buy and ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    2 years ago

    Hi jakercd530, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    Are you certain that the external drive is formatted in NTFS format for the Dropbox desktop application to accept it as a location?

     

    This will help me to assist further!

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SC21
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Hi! I'm having a similar issue. What is NTFS format? I don't want to reformat my existing hard drive because I don't want to lose the files. Should I purchase a new hard drive and does it matter which one?

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Nancy
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
2 years ago

Hey SC21! Click the Start button and then (depending on your OS) click Computer or My Computer. 

 

In the Computer window, right click the drive you wish to check and then, click Properties from the menu. In the Disk Properties window, the information is listed next to File system.

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    CRBJosh
    New member | Level 2
    10 months ago

    I am having a similar issue. I use drop box desktop daily for all my picture/video storage. I ran out of space on my internal drive so move the storage location to a 10TB external drive. Not I cant use any of the files from windows explorer. I can open the folders and see all the files but cannot copy them or open them in any programs. I check the format of the external D drive and it is NTFS. Is there something else I can try?

    • Walter's avatar
      Walter
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      10 months ago

      Hey CRBJosh - sorry to hear you're having issues with this.

       

      Did you use these steps to move your Dropbox folder to the external drive or did you manually move your files in the first place?

       

      What is the app's exact version and status as shown in your system tray at the moment? 

       

      Let us know more and we'll take it from there, Josh. 

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