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Nathanel T.
11 years agoHelpful | Level 5
This folder already contains a Dropbox directory. (Dropbox 3.03 on Fedora 21 (x64)
Is this some kind of a joke? I keep my dropbox folder on a separate partition to simply redirect the dropbox daemon to that location and not have to go through the whole download process all over aga...
$ rm -rf /home/joe/Dropbox
$ ln -s /media/my-c-drive/Users/joe/Dropbox /home/joe/Dropbox
Thanks, that helped me (avoid syncing 30Gb of data)!
Every time you switch between Windows and Ubuntu,
the Dropbox client will re-index the contents of its directory.
Win/nix switching takes place between different PCs, but every time I boot my Ubuntu, HDD keeps scratching for 10-20minutes or so.
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