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How can I stop Dropbox from trying to backup external drives?
Hi guys,
I've been trying for some time now to stop dropbox from:
- asking me to backup every external drive I plug in
- littering said drives with .dropbox.device files
I've tried ev...
Hi pellegrinogrigio, I hope you're doing well!
If you open your app's Preferences, and then click the Backups tab, do you see the settings there?
Feel free to send a screenshot of what you see there.Thanks!
Same question from a Mac user. There do not seem to be any local preferences on a Mac running the latest OS.
Thanks,
Joel
The steps to stop Mac prompt to 'auto backup' when external drives are connected are:
A) Under top bar on desktop (believe its called the task bar) find your dropbox icon
B) Pulldown menu and under the initials for your user name find 'preferences' (mine is under DM)
C) There is a 'backups' preference. Click off External Drives Backup.
[I have not yet time tested this method... as I actually just figured it out myself, after several annoying weeks of 'declining' prompt everytime I connected an external drive. But I'm pretty sure this is solution.]
External backup check box within Account>Preferences>Backups. Unchecked, but don't know when it got checked in the first place. and this fixed the problem with constantly being asked.
Nope, it didnt' work.
I keep deleting the file and as soon as I plug the external drive it's there.
