Last but not least, in case you’ve moved the Dropbox folder to a different drive on your Windows pc (either internal or external), it’s possible that your OS doesn’t mount this drive upon startup, so my advice would be to move the Dropbox folder back to your C:\ drive & enable Selective Sync (if you’d like to save up some hard disc space). Here are some tips to help you use Dropbox effectively on your Windows computer. Secondly, in case the issue persists, you can try using the following links to check if Dropbox is listed as one of your Startup items or to add it to your Startup folder. Verify that the box next to “Start Dropbox on system startup” is checked. Right click the Dropbox icon in the system tray at the bottom right of your screen, by the clock on Windows, or menu bar at the top of your screen on Mac and LinuxĬlick on the gear icon in the Notifications panel and select “Preferences” from the menu You may try checking the Dropbox preferences: It’s possible that Dropbox may not be listed under the list of startup programs or that this setting may be turned off. Michael try these links for information and solutions: Need more help? Check out Dropbox’s selective sync overview page.
How to choose which Dropbox folders you want to keep on your desktop by turning on Dropbox selective sync:
There is a simple way to choose what folders you’d like to keep synced on your desktop, and which folders you’d like to just keep in the cloud (which means that you can only access these folders by logging into Dropbox online). She didn’t like how all her photos were bogging down her computer. I just had a visitor complain about how she hates that when you download Dropbox to your desktop, it can eat up all your memory.