# Reconnect sync target

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/reconnect-sync-target/31657>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [10 July 2023 22:27 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/reconnect-sync-target/31657 "2023-07-10T22:27:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![DashingDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@DashingDave](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/DashingDave)\
**Post date:** [10 July 2023 22:27 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/reconnect-sync-target/31657/1 "2023-07-10T22:27:43Z")

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re: Joplin 2.11.11

I erased my hard drive and have been reinstalling apps, etc.

I'm trying to reconnect the Joplin app for Mac (Ventura 13.4.1) to my sync folder on Dropbox, but when I use the sync wizard to reconnect to DB, it just creates a new Joplin folder (i.e., "Joplin (1)").

How do I direct the Joplin application to the Joplin folder that was already on DB?

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**Author:** ![ajay](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/ajay/32/6551_2.png) [@ajay](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/ajay)\
**Post date:** [12 July 2023 11:33 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/reconnect-sync-target/31657/2 "2023-07-12T11:33:19Z")

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The truth is, I can make sense of your first two sentence up to "dropbox", but from that moment you loose me.

- what is it you call a sync wizzard
- and if you erased your harddrive, how is Joplin supposed to find the folder "already on DB", and what does "on DB" mean anyway ?

Do me a favor and look into menu -\> options -\> sync -\> "show advanced....  
it may solve your problem on Mac.

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**Author:** ![DashingDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@DashingDave](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/DashingDave)\
**Post date:** [12 July 2023 14:45 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/reconnect-sync-target/31657/3 "2023-07-12T14:45:05Z")

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Hi!

DB stands for (D)rop(B)ox.

The sync wizard is... the Sync Wizard, in the Synchronization tab of Joplin's settings.

 ![Screenshot 2023-07-12 at 10.39.30 AM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/4/c/4cf6198b9917416ec89cafa78d164ab5057dbd3a.png)

"Show Advanced" didn't have any options that provided a solution for me. The only one that seemed to apply was "Delete local data and re-download from sync target" and that didn't work because Joplin's id'ing the wrong sync target (the new "Joplin (1)" folder created on DB).

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [11 August 2023 14:45 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/reconnect-sync-target/31657/4 "2023-08-11T14:45:41Z")

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Closed on 11 August 2023 14:45 UTC

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