What Does Unlink Dropbox on Mac Mean If you. In my case this worked perfectly, and DB was 'up to date' after a short while.Īgain, thanks to Laurent for the link with the answer.īy the way, on DB v3.0.3, simply changing the DB folder location to whereever my existing folder was (as per the other answer) did not work DB stated 'There is already a DropBox folder in that location' or something to that effect. Uninstalling Dropbox will not delete your Dropbox account or remove the files in your Dropbox folder from your hard drive. To remove Dropbox from Mac but not deleting the folders and files, you will have to unlink this Dropbox on Mac.

Move all the DB files from the old location onto the new location,.

Re-Link it and point to the new desired location.

Unlink my DropBox (Prefs>Account>Unlink).

To clarify how to start a DB sync from scratch in a new location (for example, in the event of already having all the files on a hard drive but in a different location, like myself & the OP), I had to actually Are you doing a full delete or a recycling bin delete If its trying to shift the folders to the recycling bin that could be causing the problem with the.

Resume Syncing - DB will first check the DB folder, be astounded to find all the files magically there, and proceed to only sync the latest updates, if any.

Copy your existing DB files into the new location (overwrite anything that was just downloaded).

Start a DropBox Sync from scratch to the new location, so that DB actually starts downloading all the online files to the new location.

I seem to remember that SE likes the core part of the answer to actually be posted on SE, so here is what the DropBox documentation says, from the same link ( ).īasically, on the new computer or in the new location that you want DropBox (DB) to put the new DB folder: It looks like Laurent's answer is the right way.

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