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Elena111's avatar
Elena111
New member | Level 1
8 days ago

Backups are taking up space in my account but cannot be found anywhere

  My Dropbox shows that over 1GB of space is taken up by backups, but I can’t find any trace of them to delete. I’ve checked the web version, the Windows app, and the mobile app, but there’s no...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    8 days ago

    Thanks for letting us know about this, Elena111.

    Can you please try the steps here, to see if they help at all?

    Let me know how it goes.

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Nancy
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Hope you don’t mind if I jump in, Elena111. There’s actually a button for this on your Dropbox web account. 

You can click on the button you see below on www.dropbox.com and then, select “Backup” from the drop-down menu:

Elena111's avatar
Elena111
New member | Level 1
6 days ago

Thank you very much, this button is really there, I feel stupid 😅

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