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SUSAN F.26
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

how to use an external drive with Dropbox

I have retired, and want to keep all of my business files on an external hard drive which will back up to Dropbox.  Then I will remove all business files from my laptops.     How do I do this?  Is ...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    4 years ago

    It is a really really bad idea to sync Dropbox to an external drive - the risk of data loss is HUGE. 

    The only way to do this is to move the whole Dropbox directory to the external drive. But that then means if it disconnects at any time or is slow to re-connect on boot up Dropbox can see this as a total wipe of all data. Unfortunately there are loads of posts on here about that happening. 

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Patricia15
New member | Level 2

The advanced options don't appear for me.

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Rich
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2 years ago
Patricia15 wrote:

The advanced options don't appear for me.

It's located after the screen where you select the folders that you want to sync.

 

 

 

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