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My desktop app isn't syncing. Can you offer any ideas as to why this might be happening?
My Dropbox Family account stopped sync-ing for no obvious reason about 3 months ago. There were no hardware or software changes on my desktop at this time.
Because I couldn't find a way to get thin...
Hi hebe_gb
hebe_gb wrote:
Having dragged and dropped the relevant folders from my PC to my Dropbox folder and set up those folders as the ones I want to keep sync-ing in the future, I had hoped everything would work smoothly from there. However, Dropbox is not sync-ing in either direction.
Can anyone offer any clues as to why this might be?
I suspect this is your issue.
This isnt how Dropbox works. Dropbox cannot, and does not, sync anything all all outside of the Dropbox directory. It never ever has.
So anything you want to sync and update automatically via Dropbox must be inside of the Dropbox directory and edited / worked upon in that location. By doing what you've done all you did was double the hard drive space required on your machine and created two copies of files - one that you work on and one now old and out of date.
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIHi hebe_gb
hebe_gb wrote:
Having dragged and dropped the relevant folders from my PC to my Dropbox folder and set up those folders as the ones I want to keep sync-ing in the future, I had hoped everything would work smoothly from there. However, Dropbox is not sync-ing in either direction.
Can anyone offer any clues as to why this might be?
I suspect this is your issue.
This isnt how Dropbox works. Dropbox cannot, and does not, sync anything all all outside of the Dropbox directory. It never ever has.
So anything you want to sync and update automatically via Dropbox must be inside of the Dropbox directory and edited / worked upon in that location. By doing what you've done all you did was double the hard drive space required on your machine and created two copies of files - one that you work on and one now old and out of date.
Mark, thanks for your response. I guess that my recollection of how I thought I understood it worked is just a symptom of my ageing memory playing tricks upon me! I'll just work within the Dropbox folder from now on...
