[Q] Dropbox after formatting hard drive

Remcotjuuh · May 4, 2013

Hey guys,

Since Dropbox basically is a folder on my hard drive, I was wondering what would happen if I would format my hard drive and thus delete the Dropbox folder. Will everything remain intact, be deleted or downloaded again later on?

Thanks in advance.

feysofit · May 4, 2013

It's up to the dropbox app. The app it is monitoring changes to the folder, only copy paste rename delete but formating the drive will result in sync error.

Remcotjuuh · May 4, 2013

feysofit said:
It's up to the dropbox app. The app it is monitoring changes to the folder, only copy paste rename delete but formating the drive will result in sync error.

But does that mean that the files will stay in the folder and that new files won't sync properly?

SimonTS · May 4, 2013

Remcotjuuh said:
But does that mean that the files will stay in the folder and that new files won't sync properly?

No, no, no.

If you simply format the hard drive then it will be as if you apply your DropBox account to a new PC. Once you install it, it will sync perfectly and pull all your files down to the newly-formatted hard-drive absolutely fine.

Remcotjuuh · May 5, 2013

That sounds better, thank you. And if you format the hard drive and not yet apply your account to a newly formatted one, will the files be already accessible in the browser?

Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

feysofit · May 5, 2013

Same thing different perspective

And yes your file are accessible online in the browser or on any other device.

Regards

mahoni444 · May 5, 2013

Remcotjuuh said:
Hey guys,

Since Dropbox basically is a folder on my hard drive, I was wondering what would happen if I would format my hard drive and thus delete the Dropbox folder. Will everything remain intact, be deleted or downloaded again later on?

Thanks in advance.

Dropbox is a cloud you can format your pc you will always find what's in with your username dropox

backdraft2014 · Feb 28, 2014

Format my mac and what happen with my dropbox folder

mahoni444 said:
Dropbox is a cloud you can format your pc you will always find what's in with your username dropox

Hello People,

I'm agree Dropbox is a cloud. Right now I want to format my Mac and I have more than 60 GB in my dropbox folder. If I format my mac (I will lost all the information), should I have to wait (a long time) the sync between my computer and my dropbox before using the files OR can I copy and paste my files in the Dropbox folders (the files just before the format) and "nothing happened"?

Thank you so much for your help guys :good:.

SimonTS · Feb 28, 2014

backdraft2014 said:
Hello People,

I'm agree Dropbox is a cloud. Right now I want to format my Mac and I have more than 60 GB in my dropbox folder. If I format my mac (I will lost all the information), should I have to wait (a long time) the sync between my computer and my dropbox before using the files OR can I copy and paste my files in the Dropbox folders (the files just before the format) and "nothing happened"?

Thank you so much for your help guys :good:.

You 'should' be able to copy the files and restore them, but if anything else changes on DropBox in the meantime you may end up with some duplicated files to weed out manually.

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