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How can I go about making a backup copy of my files that I uploaded to Dropbox to an external hard drive?
If you are downloading from the web you can just change your downloads location
ie. Safari > Preferences > General > File Download Location > Select your external hard drive location.
Hope this helps 😉
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There's no process built-in to Dropbox for what you're doing., but the Dropbox folder is no different from any other folder on your computer. Copy it to your external hard drive just like you would any other folder on your computer.
Rich R. - can you provide more instructions on exactly how to copy files from Dropbox to external hard drive? When I click on a file to copy/paste, it opens the file. I have nearly 1000 files I want to copy.
Are you doing that from the Dropbox website? If so, you would have to download each one individually, or each folder as a Zip file. You'll be better off copying the files from the Dropbox folder on your computer, which all your files will sync to if you install the Dropbox client.
When backing up my Windows PC to external drive, the backup is not going through due to "problem finding file specified" related to: ...\config\systemprofile\Dropbox.
Can you help?
Rich R. .. Thanks for your efforts, but please check if you can provide a solution to my situation, of which the facts are:
The warning I got from the Dropbox help files that I should only install Dropbox on the same hard drive on which the operating system 'lives'; that installing Dropbox on an external file, will cause Dropbox not to work.
There seems to be a utility called "Boxifier", but I see some traps ahead if I use that. It purports to be able to save any file the user chooses to Dropbox. Please advise. <EndOfMessage>
I have 10+ external hard drives that I want to consolidate onto 1 drive. I was thinking the easiest way might be to upload everything to Dropbox and then copy to my external drive. Any suggestions on this being the easiest way to consolidate? Thank you for any advice.
The only way that would work is if you copied everything to one computers hard drive first (as this is how Dropbox works - from a folder on a computer, which is not an external drive).
Once its all in that folder you can then copy that to an external drive
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Thsnk you Mark, but bummer. I don't have a computer with enough space for all of my data. That's why I was hoping to upload 1 external drive at a time to get it to Dropbox.
My understanding now is that Dropbox mirrors the device/computer that's connected to it, so once I uploaded 1 external drive to Dropbox, then delete from the computer to make room to upload the next external drive, my deleted data would also be deleted from Dropbox? 🙄🤔
How about a bit of a botched work around....
Bit fiddly, but, works well.
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