Setup Kit chapter
The Big Move
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You have years of files scattered across four services. Here is how to get them all into Dropbox without losing a weekend.
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Dropbox is set up. Keep the old sources available until the first copy is verified. Now comes the part everyone dreads: actually moving in.
You have years of files scattered across iCloud, Google Drive, your Desktop, your Downloads, and probably an old laptop or two. Moving all of it sounds like a weekend you will never get back. It isn’t, if you do it in the right order.
What this chapter covers
- Don't sort while you move
- Make one staging folder
- Empty each source, one at a time
- Photos and email are separate jobs
- Drain the inbox in passes