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sanchmo's avatar
sanchmo
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

STOP Dropbox from backing up external drive

I made the mistake of accepting a request from Dropbox to back up an external drive plugged into my Mac. I didn't stop to think the files in that drive were going to be huge video files that should N...
Computer Backup
desktop
Mac
sync
  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    3 years ago

    Hey everyone!

     

    You should be able to find the steps on how to disable the external drive backup through the desktop application's preferences here.

     

    I hope this helps!

papamarcus's avatar
papamarcus
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

This is really really annoying. I should have learned my lesson by now about using beta features.

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