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Jay
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5 years ago

Hi kyliem5, thanks for messaging the Community!

 

I'm sorry to hear about this. Are you instead referring to Dropbox, and not Onedrive, which is another cloud provider? If you are referring to Dropbox, then it sounds like you enabled the automatic computer backup feature in the Dropbox desktop application. Could you first try disabling the computer backup from Dropbox using the steps in the above article to see if this helps?

 

Afterwards, you can move the folders and files back to their previous locations, which will also delete them from the Dropbox account online.

 

Let me know how it goes!

 

  • JimHesterman's avatar
    JimHesterman
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    This just started happening on my Mac. My downloads folder just started uploading to dropbox and I checked back up settings and I haven't started anything there. I'd really like to not have this happen. Please help. 

    • Walter's avatar
      Walter
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      2 years ago

      Hey JimHesterman, sorry to hear about this.

       

      Did you enabled the Dropbox Backup feature by accident perhaps?

       

      Could you send us a screenshot of what's shown in the app's preferences under the Backups tab and one of the app's status and version as shown in your menu bar? 

       

      Also, do you see any filers or folders on your backups page on the website? 

  • JimHesterman's avatar
    JimHesterman
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    I didn't set up automatic computer backup so there isn't anything to turn off. 

     

    • JimHesterman's avatar
      JimHesterman
      New member | Level 2
      2 years ago

      I'd like to add that I have clients I deliver to whether a finished product or an iteration and now... I have to wait for it to upload or sync whatever the heck it's doing somewhere else. It's a huge inconvenience. 

    • JimHesterman's avatar
      JimHesterman
      New member | Level 2
      2 years ago

      I'm uploading 1 file but it says it's syncing 22. I deleted everything from downloads and still shows it's syncing 22 files. What files? 

       

      • Hannah's avatar
        Hannah
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        2 years ago

        Hey JimHesterman, do you see any files in your Dropbox folder with a circular progress indicator next to them?

         

        This should give you an idea of what's currently syncing.

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