Transferring dropbox drive from one computer to another

Tom G.43

I have a Dropbox Professional account (3 TB of storage) and am using about 630 GB of it. I have two desktop computers that both have Dropbox on them. Computer 1 has Dropbox on an internal hard drive, Computer 2 has Dropbox on an external hard drive. The internal drive on Computer 1 has failed. Can I unplug the external drive on Computer 2 and plug it into Computer 1 and tell Dropbox to use the external drive, so I don't have to re-download all of my files? If that could work, could I also just reassign the same drive letter to the external drive as I used for the internal drive and have Dropbox keep working the way it always did?

Jay

Hi @Tom G.43, thanks for messaging the Community.

 

It wouldn't be possible to use the same external drive which already has a Dropbox folder on it, since the folder would be associated to the original computer.

 

You'd need either use a different external drive entirely, or create a new Dropbox folder on that external drive, in a different subfolder, for the files to sync there (meaning you'd have twice the storage usage on the drive).

 

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