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sloohand
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

How to stop syncing music files to my Dropbox?

I'm trying to stop Dropbox from syncing a ton of music. I've paused it indefinitely but I don't want all that music to be backed up on Dropbox. There doesn't seem to be a 'stop sync' option, unless I...
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    sloohand
    3 years ago

    Hey everyone, thanks so much for the suggestions. It appears the issue magically resolved itself! The syncing finally stopped. I checked and the music folder was still in backup. I deleted it, then Dropbox deleted all the music files and everything is back to normal. So yay!

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Mark
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3 years ago

You need to move the files/folders out of the Dropbox directory if you do not want them to sync 🙂

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