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mw77

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Jan 19, 2012
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I installed a 120GB SSD into my late 2009 MacPro running the latest version of Mountain Lion with the hope of using it as the boot drive. I followed the directions listed here to set this up: http://macintoshhowto.com/hardware/how-to-speed-up-your-mac-with-a-ssd-drive.html

Once I had the OS on the SSD pointing to my user folder on my original hard drive and rebooted, dropbox (DB) gave an error that it could no longer find my DB folder and to either relocate it or to resync from the web. After contacting DB about this, I was told that DB needs to be on the same drive as the OS otherwise syncing may not work correctly. I migrated my DB folder to the new boot drive and things worked fine…until I realized a 120GB SSD wasn’t going to cut it if I have to keep my DB folder there too given the size of my DB.

I sent the 120 GB SSD back and replaced it with a 250 GB SSD. The only thing I did differently was to let carbon copy cloner install an OSX recovery partition on the SDD first, otherwise, I followed the directions again as posted in the link above. This time, DB is working fine. No error came up, and the DB folder sitting on my old hard drive is syncing away fine. So, I’m wondering what the heck happened and what to do next. Did I just get lucky and my situation could break at any time? How have others managed their dropbox folder on the original hard drive when upgrading the boot drive? Thanks for any comments / thoughts.
 
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