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Desktop Application Will Not Allow Existing Dropbox Folder to Be Used. Error: "The folder already contains a Dropbox directory."
I have been a happy user of Dropbox for years. Until recently . . .
Dropbox recently quit working properly. The latest issue today was that it failed to load the "platform plugin windows." The ...
You should not select the Dropbox folder but the folder you wish Dropbox to be placed in. Then it will be installed in that folder.
If its on a 2nd drive and not in a folder, simply select the Drive in the chooser window.
At least this is what I am thinking based upon your post. I made this same issue at first when trying to move Dropbox all those years ago.
The installer will let you choose the location. It on the last screen before it closes under the advanced settings. Many users myself included think Dropbox was already being installed in the default location at this point in the process but it was still waiting.
Not being a IT professional and being a user, my logic is whether my drive is screwed to the inside of my laptop or there is a flexible cord to the drive siting next to my laptop seems irrelevant. A drive is a drive, you should be able to point dropbox to the location of the folder for it to sync.
I'm sure its not the done thing, not by the book, can't be done like that, it's not supposed to be the way, never designed to......etc
But in today's world, service providers that survive work to find solutions to clients needs no matter how unconventional or outside of the box we are supposed to be in. I'm sure if Steve Jobs had said, you're not supposed to use your phone to surf the net and send emails, we'd all be stuck with a little old Nokia.
I'm not giving you a hard time, just supporting the others that had experienced similar problems but they probably had their hard drives firmly screwed into their PC.
In any event, I hope my solution will be helpful to others.
I could find no comments from dropbox support in the forum so maybe providing some comment there about common solutions would be worth considering.
Just not feeling the love.
