Would this be the correct way to do this?įound this response on the DropBox community forum, same principle as a new PC and basically the same procedure I was thinking of. Once complete connect the internet and restart Dropbox so it can see what files and folders are left to sync. Transfer the Dropbox folder from another HDD to the newly formatted where Dropbox would have already began syncing folders. Turn Dropbox off and even disconnect internet for good measure. Install Dropbox and set the sync folder too the HDD.

Move over the user files and format the HDD. My thought was to do a fresh install of windows on the SSD. I want to be sure that thew duplication of the Dropbox doesn't happen too me, what is the correct way to do this? A server is in the works but as of now we are installing 500GB SSD's in all of these machines and syncing the Dropbox to the 4TB HDD's that are still in the machines. Where I come in, is to this place with slow computers. Needless to say the computers are all very slow. Some of those drives with barracuda drives others with nas drives. The temporary solution was too install 4TB drives in all of these machines for a now 3TB Dropbox size. This also caused all other drives to fill and crash them due to no space. Some users used one copy and others the other copy.

Somehow a duplicate copy of Dropbox was made and Dropbox began syncing 2 copies of the same info.

Backstory, a previous tech was working on a machine and cloned the drive.

Install dropbox on another drive