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I want what I download to go to the hard disk and not to Dropbox.
Hello, first of all, I don't know if it's because there isn't one or what, but I haven't found anything to express myself in Spanish, which is my language. And to what we are going, I notice that,...
Rich
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RamRock wrote:
Hello, first of all, I don't know if it's because there isn't one or what, but I haven't found anything to express myself in Spanish, which is my language.
You should see an option to change the language used by the forums in the upper-right corner of the page. Once you select Spanish, you'll see the Spanish categories and topics.
And to what we are going, I notice that, when I browse and I download something, whether documents, images, audios or videos, this is stored in Dropbox but NOT on my hard drive and I want to have everything on my hard drive
There are two possibilities here. First, Dropbox doesn't control where your files are saved when you download something through a browser. Your browser controls this. Make sure your browser is set to either save downloaded files to your Downloads folder, or prompt you for a location when you start a download.
The other possibility is that you've activated the Backup feature in Dropbox which MOVES your key folders such as Documents and Downloads into your Dropbox folder so they will sync. This results in files that you're saving in these folders to automatically sync to your Dropbox account online. If that's not your intent, you can disable the backup feature and choose to move those folders back to their original location outside of your Dropbox folder.
Also keep in mind that Dropbox isn't just a cloud-only folder, though it can be set up to be. By default, the Dropbox folder you see is actually on your local drive, and anything you save in it is located on your local drive, which then syncs with your account online.
