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camsul
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago
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In Dropbox for MacOS, the Dropbox folder appears two places

I have MacOS Ventura 13.3.1 and the new Dropbox for MacOS has shifted my Dropbox folder to ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox.  However, it left in place my previous Dropbox folder at ~/Dropbox.  In Find...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    2 years ago

    Hi camsul, as your Dropbox folder is now in the CloudStorage location, the other Dropbox folder, which looks like an alias to that location, is only a shortcut. 

     

    If you wish, you can delete that shortcut, so that only the CloudStorage folder remains in Finder.

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camsul
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Oops.  That was two identical screenshots.  Here's the other one.

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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi camsul, as your Dropbox folder is now in the CloudStorage location, the other Dropbox folder, which looks like an alias to that location, is only a shortcut. 

 

If you wish, you can delete that shortcut, so that only the CloudStorage folder remains in Finder.

  • Dan H.10's avatar
    Dan H.10
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    That is not true.  They are different folders and the Cloud Storage Dropbox file is "online only"  The entire folder.  Over 500 GB I have to download?

    • Dan H.10's avatar
      Dan H.10
      New member | Level 2
      2 years ago

      New MAC has the sidebar full of my shortcuts to the dropbox folder on my drive. 

      I worked for a few days and then discovered my files were not being updated on the other computers.

      The sidebar folder is not linked to  the dropbox app anymore.

      The Library in CloudStorage folder file called Dropbox is all online only!

      Over 500Gb of files now marked online only in hundreds of folders.

       

      This is a technical memo that should have gone out to all users. 

      What a mess.   What do I do?  

       

      Dan

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