You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

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pristinetravel97's avatar
pristinetravel97
Explorer | Level 4
10 months ago

Update asks me to disable Dropbox Backup & wants to download files locally.

I'm literally so confused because Dropbox all of a sudden wants me to update Dropbox Backup and prompted me to disable backup in order to update and then proceed to try to download OVER 1TB of data o...
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Ryan T.6's avatar
Ryan T.6
Helpful | Level 6
9 months ago

I have the same problem. The main reason I used Dropbox over competitors was the ability to store stuff online over leaving it on the computer to take up space.

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