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Which Dropbox icon do I need to click on to access my account settings on Windows?
I wish to change some settings. When I click on either the dropbox icon (either right click or left click, I expect to see some dialog box where I can changes settings. Instead I see Windows explorer...
I believe what Hannah meant was that the cache folder canât be moved on its own to a different location; since itâs a hidden folder within your root Dropbox folder, it can only be moved with it.
To move the Dropbox folder to a different drive altogether, you'll need to follow the steps Hannah listed here.
Nancy
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Dropbox StaffIf you click on the âOther system tray iconsâ option that appears in one of your latest screenshots, are you able to add the Dropbox icon to your system tray perhaps?
From what I can see, there are no icons showing in your system tray (next to your clock settings) at all, so I believe thatâs the issue here.
OK, I now see one problem. I have three monitors on my desktop system. The monitor that is directly in front of my, which is the best monitor on my system, and is the one that I use more than any other is not the monitor Windows 11 sees as the home monitor.
Here is the tray of the monitor in front of me :
And here is the tray of the monitor that Windows 11 thinks is my main monitor:
But I still don't see how to change the dropbox Cache directory location, which is at C:\users\thomehm\dropbox, to my external SSD at f: ? This drive is 4TB which is big enough for full system backup files. And then after storing the backup has completed, I will want to remove the full system backup files from and save them only online at dropbox.
- Hannah
The location of the cache folder cannot be changed, thomehm.
It might be possible to move the Dropbox folder itself to a different location, by following these steps.
Keep in mind that moving the Dropbox folder to an external drive, though, holds some file deletion risks, if the drive gets disconnected or if the Dropbox app starts before the drive is connected to the computer.
But the files that I want to upload to Dropbox total over 1 TB, because they are my computer image. This is more than the space available in the Dropbox Cache folder, even more than is available on the entire C: drive. How can I upload such large files to dropbox. If I break it all up to small enough files to upload individually, it seems that this would be very laborious. I would like it to be at least semi automatic.
- Hannah
I understand where you're coming from, thomehm.
You could sync your files in batches, switch each batch to online-only to free up space and then move on to the next batch.
And moving the Dropbox folder to an external drive is possible, I just wanted to note the risks that come with it, basically.
