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Turn off hard drive back up
Hello, juts tried the new feature hard drive back-up. You can eve choose folders. So I picked my most important folder, my main dj folder with 300gb music. But dropbox is doing something with that f...
- Hey DigiluxAmsterdam, thanks for reaching out to our Community!
When it comes to the external drive backup, even though there's no specific button, you can just delete the backup folder from Dropbox to stop the backup.
Deleting it in Dropbox will only delete it from there, not your external drive.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey DigiluxAmsterdam, thanks for reaching out to our Community!
When it comes to the external drive backup, even though there's no specific button, you can just delete the backup folder from Dropbox to stop the backup.
Deleting it in Dropbox will only delete it from there, not your external drive.
Let me know if you have any questions.
When it comes to the external drive backup, even though there's no specific button, you can just delete the backup folder from Dropbox to stop the backup.
Deleting it in Dropbox will only delete it from there, not your external drive.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
- HannahNot a problem!
If you have any more questions, make sure to let us know!My dropbox started automatically backup up my external hard drive (without me asking it to do this).
I cannot find anyway of terminating this backup and it says it will take 2 days to complete.
I don't what dropbox to back up my external hard drive at all - I cannot find where to switch this off?
- MeganHi Troy Walton, no worries this is why I am here.
You can find the steps to disable Computer backup right here.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to let me know!
