Moving from C drive to D drive (two Dropbox folders) - anything to worry about?

Question

Hi gang,

So I've gotten myself into a mess - and hoping you can tell me if this process is going to create any ****** headaches or problems for me?

What's the situation?

I have a Dropbox folder on both my C: drive and on my D drive. The C: drive is syncing. The Ddrive is not.  This came about when support told me to uninstall and reinstall the Dropbox app.

Dropbox support told me I can use the Move functionality to move the C: drive folder to D: . But they won't answer my specific questions about conflicts. I'm worried about conflict problems (or getting duplicates on D: ).

Here are the move instructions in case anyone else is looking:
https://help.dropbox.com/installs/move-dropbox-folder

My question?

So how do I clean all this up:
- Get the new files that have been created recently - off the C: drive and into the D drive?
- Turn off the C: drive syncing
- Make sure everything is syncing to D
- Not lose any files in this process (especially the ones on D that didn't sync)
- Make sure the files are not downloading to D - just when I access/need them.

When I try to Move from C: to D: ...

Dropbox says it's going to create a NEW folder - but I already have one there!

Any advice / warnings / suggestions? Do you think this will work?

This is really frustrating because I am so fanatical about keeping my files where I can find them!

Thanks for your help! Julie

Hannah · Answer

Hey @Jhood89, thanks for posting to the Dropbox Community today!

You'll actually want to follow these steps below, to resolve this issue:

* Uninstall Dropbox.
* Rename your existing Dropbox folder (the one in D) to "Dropbox (old)" or similar. 
* Reinstall Dropbox and select the location that you want for the Dropbox folder from the advanced settings during the installation. 
* When the installation is finished, Dropbox will immediately start to sync, so you'll need to pause syncing or exit Dropbox. 
* Move only the content of "Dropbox (old)" into the newly created Dropbox folder. When the move is complete, and not before, resume syncing or re-launch Dropbox.

Let me know how it goes!