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Navigate to the desired location on your new computer and right click and select Paste. Highlight and right click the Sync folder on the external drive and select Copy.

Copy the Sync folder to the desired location on your new computer.

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Navigate to the location of the Sync folder on the external USB drive, using Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder.

Eject the external drive, and connect it to your new computer.

This will copy your Sync folder from the current location, to your external USB drive.

Open your external USB drive using Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder.

Highlight and right click the Sync folder and select Copy.

The desktop app installer will prompt you to select the location of your Sync folder – choose the location of the Sync folder you just copied over.

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Once your Sync folder has been moved to the new computer you can proceed to install the Sync desktop app. To do so you would copy the current Sync folder onto an external drive, connect the external drive to your new computer, and then copy the Sync folder from the external drive to the desired location on your new computer. Overview: You can manually move your Sync folder to a new computer, to avoid having to re-download your files from the cloud when re-installing Sync. Removable media is not recommended: SD cards, USB “thumb drives” and other devices that are removed often are not recommended locations for the Sync folder, as these types of devices can cause unexpected deletes, slow syncing performance, and file system compatibility issues. Sync won’t work correctly if the Sync folder is located on a network drive.

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Network file systems are not supported: Sync does not support network attached drives or network file systems, as file update events are not sent by network storage. You can safely delete the Sync folder from the old location. The Sync folder may still exist at the old location. That’s it, you’ve now successfully moved the Sync folder to a new location.

Navigate to the new Sync folder location, highlight the folder (but don’t navigate into it), and click Select Folder or Open.

The Sync app will prompt you to locate the new Sync folder.

Once the copy is complete (and the original folder removed), click the Sync icon on the Windows system tray or the Mac menu bar, click the the Settings icon (cog), and select Resume Sync.

If you copied the Sync folder you’ll need to delete it at the original location.

This will copy or move your Sync folder from the current location, to the new location.

Navigate to the new location using Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder.

Highlight and right click the Sync folder and select Copy or Cut.

Navigate to the location of your current Sync folder using Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder.

Click the Settings icon (cog) and select Pause Sync.

Click the Sync icon on the Windows system tray or the Mac menu bar.

When you resume Sync, the app will prompt you to locate the Sync folder at the new location.

Overview: The easiest method to move your Sync folder to a new location is to Pause Sync, then manually move the Sync folder from the current location to the new location using Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder. Moving the Sync folder to a new location on the same computer or to an external USB drive Moving the Sync folder to a new computer.

Moving the Sync folder to a new location on the same computer or to an external USB drive.

Moving to a new computer: You can manually move your Sync folder to a new computer, to avoid having to re-download your files from the cloud when re-installing Sync. Sync won’t work correctly if the external drive becomes inaccessible or disconnected. Your external drive should be permanently attached, as the Sync folder must be available before the Sync app starts.

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Moving to an external drive: You can move your Sync folder to a USB attached external drive to free up space on your internal drive and/or provide more storage space for the Sync folder. For example, you could move the Sync folder to your Desktop. Moving to the same internal hard drive: Moving the Sync folder to a new location on the same internal hard drive can make your files in Sync easier for you to access. You can move your Sync folder to a new location on your computer, onto an external drive connected to your computer, or to a new computer. Moving your Sync folder to a new location