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Why is my Downloads folder syncing to the site?
All downloads to my PC are backing up in my onedrive. How do I stop this?
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi 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!
I didn't set up automatic computer backup so there isn't anything to turn off.
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.
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
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.
