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dversari
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Backup

You guys at Dropbox are doing everything to make me (and many others) quit Dropbox. First, you removed the possibility of resolvig symlink. Now you are not allowing to see the backup of an external d...
Desktop
Dropbox Backup
Jay's avatar
Jay
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Hi kundrnik, currently, what you're requesting is not longer possible with the Dropbox desktop application. 

 

Backups for other devices are no longer visible on the local machine, and cannot be enabled to be viewed.

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kundrnik
Helpful | Level 6
9 months ago

Hi Jay,

 

Thank you for the quick reply.

 

Can you help me understand the reason why Dropbox no longer supports this? And when did Dropbox stop supporting this?

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    Jay
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    9 months ago

    The way that computer backups were implemented was changed, leading to the removal of the local versions of the backup, since they can only be accessed via the website now. 

     

    This feature was changed in 2022.

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