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How can I cancel my computer backup?
I apparently selected pc backup when I installed Dropbox and naturally I'm out of storage on my Dropbox account now. I don't want and have no need to have my pc backed up to it. I have the desktop ...
- Hey timq, welcome aboard our Community!
Indeed, with computer backup, if you delete your desktop files from Dropbox, they will also be deleted from your computer.
If you want to disable the backup feature, you can follow the steps here.
You'll find the Dropbox app's preferences, if you click on the Dropbox icon in your system tray.
Let me know if you have any questions.
It is backups that I'm having trouble with. Possibly the word "syncing" isn't used for that.
Not sure about your 2nd question. This is what I see now - the backup is Unlinked instead of Disabled.
I also found, in the Dropbox folder on my hard drive, shortcuts in both the Documents and PIctures folder pointing to the original folders on my C drive. I deleted those shortcuts before removing the "My Pc" backup from that Dropbox folder. My hope was to prevent the horrific effect of deleting original files on my hard drive when a backup is deleted in the dropbox cloud. Can anyone confirm that this would work?
- Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
When you disabled your backups the app would have gone through the process of removing them from Dropbox only and ensuring that they're still on the device so interrupting this process and what you've done so far sounds like you deleted the files altogether.
You can try pausing sync or quitting the desktop app and restoring your files from the trash in order to move them manually back to your Desktop/Download/Documents folders.
In any case, please let us know how you get on Another Fed Up User
