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I had real trouble with Dropbox so deleted it altogether. However Dropbox seems to have created its own folder which mirrors my normal files and copies any files I create on my PC. If I try to delete this folder it deletes all my personal files and I can seem to stop this Dropbox clone structure from wanting to mirror my normal file structure. It has created a Dropbox/My PC clone that means if I save a file it saves it in my normal Documents area and is somehow linked to this unwanted My PC thing. Deleting My PC deletes everything in my own personal areas. Having deleted Dropbox I am still being nheld ransom by it. Any suggestions?





 
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Why need you Dropbox loaded? 🤔 Yes, you can carefully revert back from the "backup" feature, as described in documentation for convenience. But this is only for convenience and not mandatory. Dropbox isn't the only program using links. You can create links wherever you want for your convenience, if applicable. 😉 Removing link is the same as removing a file or folder. You can do it using your file explorer or appropriate shell commands, whatever is convenient for you. That's it.

Let's hope this will help.




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Hi Fdormoy,

I wondered if the two issues might be somehow related. If you attempt to change the location of the Creative Cloud files folder again to a different location on the external drive does that work? 

Thanks,

- Dave it has always been installed on my e drive with all of my games, but you gave me an idea and i might use the uninstall exe file that steam has to uninstall it, and then just reinstall it back into the drive.

so interestingly enough, apparently all it took was installing it into the same place it already was and i guess it just identified itself along with windows during the installation because now everything with it is fixed. thanks for the help! Try deleting your InDesign cache files (which is not the same as trashing preferences).To do so:For Macintosh Users: With InDesign closed launch a Finder Window in column view and click on your home folder. With the Option Key pressed choose Library from the Finder Go Menu. Within the Library folder find the “Caches” folder. Within the Caches folder find and delete the entire file “Adobe InDesign”. I find that deleting the cache file completely leads to a lasting change.  For Windows Users: On W... I had the same problem a couple of months back. Now if this is happening only with Chrome and not with other browsers, then the problem cannot be a virus. But it can be a virus if other browsers and programs are facing equal problems.  
  
So, with chrome as we all know there is a memory problem. So to solve that follow these simple steps.  
  
1. On the top right menu icon, select History  
2. From there select "clear browsing data"  
3. It will prompt for the time span, there you select "beginning of time"  
4. You might lose few data like saved passwords, favorites, but no data will be removed which are saved properly.  
  
After you are done with this, clean your system with Disk Cleaning Software. While doing this don't keep any browser window open especially Chrome.  
If you notice, it is skipping out the Chrome from the list, you have to select the program manually and click on "clear".  
  
After this restart your system and see if it works. If it doesn't then you have to undergo the entire process of uninstalling and re-installing Chrome. clean the floppy disk drive then try again. anywho, since it's me, i would've backed up those contents to a cd/dvd or portable drive already so no problem. Over the years, I've had several versions of DW -- some were more stable than others.  I can honestly say, the FTP has never been a big problem for me.   If it ever becomes glitchy, I close DW and clear my cache or restore preferences as that fixes most  problems. 

**[Unusual behavior in Dreamweaver? Try restoring preferences.](https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html "https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html")** 

I mainly work with dynamic sites but I don't have more than 2,000 files per site folder.    Each site folder resides on my primary hard drive within my local testing server's default web directory (htdocs or www).   

![CC-testingServer1.jpg](/legacyfs/online/1550323_CC-testingServer1.jpg)

I use Ctrl+Shift+U to upload an open document to server.  To be quite honest, it happens so fast, I don't even see the background process panel.    If I'm uploading many files, I expand my files panel so I can compare contents of local site with remote server to ensure that the last modified timestamps are consistent.

![CC-FilesPanel-expanded.jpg](/legacyfs/online/1550322_CC-FilesPanel-expanded.jpg)

Finally, I had to turn off Real-Time backups and anti-virus scanning while I work.  When those processes were running in the background, everything came to a crawl. 

Hope this helps.



 Nancy O'Shea, ACP  

Alt-Web Design & Publishing 3 ways u could do it:



1) make a shortcut and place it in the cab file generated, then edit the setup file and add the path to it and it will unzipp to the desktop. Drawbacks: if they choose to install your app in another folder, the shortcut wont work.



2) When the program is run make it add a shortcut to the desktop (i lost the code but if i find it ilol post it.



3) dont use the pakaging and deployment sytem, use another install creator eg Install Creator Pro. Drawbacks: you will probably have to use the pakage and deployment wizard to find out where the files need to go and then put them into the install creator manually.



hope that helps. You can use third party defragmentation tools that have central management consoles to manage the tools, monitor systems and report on fragmentation levels. These tools have the ability to start defragmentation based on a schedule or a fragmentation threshold level (tool dependent). What they also do well is provide reporting on how things are going on the systems you monitor fragmentation wise.


Here is a comparison page for some of the major defragmentation applications:  

[Comparison of defragmentation software](http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_defragmentation_software)


The big three from when I did some research several years ago:  

PerfectDisk  

O&O Defrag  

Diskeeper


Keep in mind that Windows includes basic defragmentation. You can schedule this using TaskSchedule. Basic defragmentation does not defragment page files, hyberfiles and the like. There are some other free tools available that can do various items like page files. This all requires you to piece together and and devise your own monitoring. If you need reporting and monitoring purchasing it is always simpler.


If you can justify the cost of a managed defragmentation program, these will all do a good job. Test each to see how they impact system performance in your environment while defragmenting as well as their management and reporting capabilities.


  

First, don’t wait for your hard disk drive to be hardly used before defragging it. You have to maintain a certain defragmentation period as part of the computer hardware maintenance for your computer system. you need to change the boot order so it checks the HDD before the floppy, cdrom etc...



btw a new pc means you will have to reinstall windows have you tried entering safe mode? Let us know if it is the same.



It could be corrupt files and not startup programs.