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atakee
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3 days ago

Can I back up the same USB stick to Dropbox after changing to a new computer?

Hi there, A specific USB stick was being automatically backed up on Dropbox every time I inserted it to my previous laptop. Now that I changed to a new laptop, I want this back up process with t...
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atakee
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Thanks very much for your reply!

Do you mean "there is no way round, you have to delete the old backup and let DB create a new backup for your USB stick"?

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Rich
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3 days ago
atakee wrote:

Do you mean "there is no way round, you have to delete the old backup and let DB create a new backup for your USB stick"?

Yes. Dropbox will treat it as a new device and a new backup. It won't back it up to the existing backup that you made on the other device.

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