What is happening with my files? . . Where should Dropbox be placed in File Explorer?


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Hello

1. What is happening with my files?

https://imgur.com/4kPBafG


2. In File Explorer, where is Dropbox?


In this example below, the person is named Bill and his files are in a folder titled 'My Files'. (Every file he has is within 1 folder)


Bill's File Explorer looks like this . .


C:\Users\'Bill'\'My Files'


In File Explorer, the desktop icon, represented by C, is at the top of the directory tree.


Dropbox is located in a sub folder of C.


This means Bill's files are in a subfolder (Dropbox) of the subfolder ('C')

https://imgur.com/a/6EqQHkV

Is this correct?

Thank you
 
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see the corrected post
 

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Thank you for the effort.

The link wouldnt work for me. Maybe it is my browser. I tried Brave but it didnt work. I know who you mean.


I found the link to his video, but he doesnt say where Dropbox goes in File Explorer. There is a moment where his hard drive shown BUT he never mentions the issue I'm trying to get an answer too.

When I have googled, it is about where to find Dropbox if it is missing. It is not about the placement of DB in relation to the tree directory
 

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Zas said:
This means Bill's files are in a subfolder (Dropbox) of the subfolder ('C')

https://imgur.com/a/6EqQHkV
Is this correct?
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No.

Default Dropbox data folder location is '$HOME' which translates to the path C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Dropbox

In your example this would be: C:\Users\Bill\Dropbox
 

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Thank you for the reply. You are right ;-)

That is the path . . .

SlicEnDicE said:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Dropbox
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Bill's files are within Dropbox; and Dropbox is within the username [USERNAME], and that is within the C Drive.


I recently learned something I had not known about dropbox. The drop box icon needs to be in the system tray. Files are synced to the cloud.

If the Dropbox icon is not in the system tray, files will not be synced to the cloud. (make sure to look at the hidden menu in the system tray, It is the arrow pointing up. the drop box icon could be within the hidden menu.

If that is the case, Dropbox is within the hidden menu , your files will be synced to the cloud.

(why don't we name this cloud? How about Arnie? You wouldn't want to go by the name 'Person')
 

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Zas said:
I recently learned something I had not known about dropbox. The drop box icon needs to be in the system tray. Files are synced to the cloud.

If the Dropbox icon is not in the system tray, files will not be synced to the cloud. (make sure to look at the hidden menu in the system tray, It is the arrow pointing up. the drop box icon could be within the hidden menu.
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You can put the DROPBOX folder anywhere you like. AFAIK, you can't run the Dropbox app on the machine without the icon appearing in the system tray. I don't see any option to remove it. If Dropbox isn't running, clearly it won't sync, that's the only way I see of removing the icon from the system tray.
 

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gunrunnerjohn said:
You can put the DROPBOX folder anywhere you like
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Yes, during installation. If you can do it after installation, I don't know how that would be done. I don't think you could just cut and paste to another location . . . or rather you shouldn't be able to.

My follow up question:
- I have 4 folder on my desktop (titled A - F; G - L; M - R; S - Z)

[While taking the screenshot, I had an 'a ha' moment, or did I?] . . .

desktop blurred.webp

Can I save files to the 4 folders, that are on my desktop (because it is within Dropbox). Or do I need to make 4 shortcuts to those folders?

Thank you
 

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You can change the Dropbox folder location anytime, it's trivial. Click on your account in the Windows ap and select Preferences. Click on Sync and use the Change location button.

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I have a 7 hub USB adapter connected to my laptop, with 2 X 1 TB USB thumb drives and Dropbox could be on a USB thumb drive? (It's taking up 164 GB of my C drive).

It hadn't occurred to me I could do that. Thank you. I just had an a-ha moment
 

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