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FunnyBox
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago

Dropbox tries to back up a file I excluded from back up on Win11

Hi there! DropBox Backup is trying to back up a file that I had excluded from back up.   I'm using DropBox 194.4.6267 on Windows 11 to back up my e-mails from "%APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\...
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FunnyBox
Explorer | Level 4

Hi, @Nancy ! Thank you for your message! 😄

 

The backup seems to complete fine...

 

 

... but I still see this when I "View sync issues":

 

 

If I restart Dropbox, it will still show the same sync issue as above, and below:

 

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pixiupl
Helpful | Level 7
9 months ago

FunnyBox 

I suggest moving out of DB. It gets worse and worse as the time goes by.

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