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sjamie
Explorer | Level 3
11 months ago

How to merge two duplicate PC backups?

I've been using Dropbox for over 10 years and I've always managed to keep the name of each new upgraded PC the same.   I've backed up this PC in Dropbox.  Recently, I reinstalled Windows 11 on my...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    11 months ago
    sjamie wrote:

    ... is there a way to simply merge the two backups?  If not, how do I delete the backup of the "old" PC ...

    There's no way to merge two backups. You should be able to delete the old one from your Backups page.

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Rich
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11 months ago
sjamie wrote:

... is there a way to simply merge the two backups?  If not, how do I delete the backup of the "old" PC ...

There's no way to merge two backups. You should be able to delete the old one from your Backups page.

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