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andrea52
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

If I backup Dropbox on an external, does it keep the my Dropbox files that are locally?

When you do a backup of dropbox to an external hard drive on a mac does it backup only files that have been uploaded to your local computer? Does it backup what is on the dropbox cloud or just what i...
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andrea52
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

unfortunately due to privacy issues I can't screenshot to a public community like this. Do you have a email I can use since you work for dropbox?

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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi andrea52, could you contact the support team directly for them to assist further on this matter?

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