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S3Amy's avatar
S3Amy
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Attempting to move DropBox to a different internal drive on my PC

I am struggling with this message... I unchecked all the boxes under "selective sync" under the Sync tab. I have also paused syncing indefinitely on the DropBox dialogue box that pops up whe...
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Dropbox Backup
  • S3Amy's avatar
    S3Amy
    2 years ago

    In that article, it says to click on "Sync and Backups." I have a separate Sync tab and a separate Backups tab. If I go under the Backups tap and go to Manage Backups, I see an option to delete your PC backup. Is this where I need to go?

     

    I'm so nervous deleting stuff! This is my whole business!

S3Amy's avatar
S3Amy
Helpful | Level 6

In that article, it says to click on "Sync and Backups." I have a separate Sync tab and a separate Backups tab. If I go under the Backups tap and go to Manage Backups, I see an option to delete your PC backup. Is this where I need to go?

 

I'm so nervous deleting stuff! This is my whole business!

Hannah's avatar
Hannah
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2 years ago

That's the option you need, S3Amy, that's correct! It will allow you to disable the backup feature.

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