Hears an article that might help, with the important points taken out and put in this email:
"If you decide to move the folder, we recommend choosing a location on the same hard drive as your operating system. Dropbox won't work correctly if the Dropbox folder becomes inaccessible, which can happen if it's located on an external drive that gets disconnected.” "• Moving the Dropbox folder to a drive with a non-default file system for the operating system may cause unexpected behavior. 3 of 4” Click the Dropbox icon from your menu bar <https://www.dropbox.com/help/141>. Click the gear icon. Click Preferences… Click Account. Click the Dropbox location dropdown. Choose a new location for your Dropbox. Let Dropbox move your folder and its contents to the new location. Dropbox Business users: If you've connected a personal and a work Dropbox <https://www.dropbox.com/help/4235>, you'll see both of your Dropbox accounts listed here. Select the correct toggle before moving the Dropbox folder location. A note on renaming: Your Dropbox folder will keep the same name as before, and can't be changed by using the move feature. Dropbox will not sync your Dropbox folder if it has been manually renamed or moved through your operating system. If Dropbox loses track of your Dropbox folder, it will attempt to re-sync the folder in its entirety using its last known location. For our advanced users If you want to put your Dropbox folder on an external drive, proceed with caution: The Dropbox folder must be available when your computer boots and before the Dropbox desktop app starts. Some USB drives, for example, take some time to mount before your computer recognizes them. The Dropbox desktop app could start before such a drive is ready and get confused. You'll receive an error and Dropbox will give you the opportunity to relink your Dropbox account or exit if it is unable to find your Dropbox folder. If the external drive is disconnected from the computer while Dropbox is running, there's a small chance that the app will start deleting files before realizing that the entire drive has been removed. Be extremely careful if using an external drive for your Dropbox folder. https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/89 <https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/89> " > On Aug 2, 2016, at 7:41 AM, Kristeen Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently upgraded to 1 TB of space on dropbox. My Mac hard drive, however, > is only 500 GB. In order to fully utilize this upgrade, I would like to > change the default location of my dropbox folder to a 4 TB external drive. I > found out that this is done through the dropbox app under preferences. Since > this app is totally inaccessible, does anyone know of another way of changing > it? Is there a way through terminal mode that it can be done? Any help is > appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Kristeen > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
