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fssbob
Collaborator | Level 10
2 years ago

Dropbox Migration to a New Mac With the New Cloud Storage Setup

On my primary computer, I keep all Dropbox files in offline mode.   I've updated to the new Dropbox setup that places the Dropbox folder in ~/Library/CloudStorage.   I'm wondering what will happe...
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    fssbob
    2 years ago

    Got it! Thanks--that makes sense.

     

    Can I suggest that your development people review this and see if it's possible to update the Dropbox application at some point in the future so these steps are no longer necessary. The way things worked BEFORE the current change was simpler and less time-and-bandwidth consuming: You just had to run the standard Apple migration, and and then connect the new computer to your Dropbox account (no reinstallation necessary). At that point Dropbox would update its indexing without requiring re-download of the Dropbox contents.

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Jay
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Hi fssbob, thanks for messaging the Community.

 

To prevent any unexpected behavior, we'd recommend allowing the Dropbox desktop application to sync the files from the site directly when migrating to a new Mac.

 

If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

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Artsi01253
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago
Yes thanks

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