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douggoss
New member | Level 1
2 months ago

I have two Dropbox folders on my Windows machine

I somehow have Dropbox in two locations C\Users\Doug\Dropbox (190GB - 302456 files - 22,746 folders) AND D\Dropbox (2.73GB - 290 files - 18 folders) When I went to the dropbox icon in the task ...
desktop
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Jay
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2 months ago

Hi douggoss, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

If you're already seeing the D drive in the Dropbox desktop application, then this means that this is the 'live' folder already syncing to the site, and the other folder you're seeing is an old or unused folder.

If you look in Explorer, which folder has the sync icons next to the files?

This will help me to assist further!

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