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John H1
2 years agoNew member | Level 2
Moving Synced Data To External SSD Drive & Backing Up That Drive
To free up space on my notebook and assist in my DAW performance, I'm using a new external SSD drive to directly write new files too and I want to move my large existing files (already uploaded to Dr...
John H1
New member | Level 2
Thanks for the quick reply!
It would have been great to simply move the files in DpBx directly to a backup, a two way would be even better! This would save days of down and up load of the same files.
Another related question is; can the external SSD drive also be synced to DpBx?
Jay
2 years agoDropbox Staff
The Dropbox Backup feature can backup external drives to the site directly. The backup would be one-way and would only be visible from the site.
- theflyingburritto9 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Dropbox is really the worst service to use for backing up audio files or any media. They make it extremely slow so you don't move the files locally. I am in the process of deleting all my audio from 10 years and starting from scratch. I'm also working on moving away from DB altogether. It is an exploitative platform.
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