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Safely removing external hard drive from dropbox
Hi, I seem to have an external hard drive in my dropbox which I don't want there. How do I safely remove it from dropbox without wiping it?! I looked in the desktop app under preferences/backups/manage backups but it's not there. I'm scared to click delete on the web page in case it starts deleting the drive contents. What do I do?
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- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi richp75, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
If you delete the external drive backup from the site, it will only affect the backup, and not the actual external drive itself.
Are you able to see the external drive backup on the site itself to delete it?
Keep me updated with any progress!
Thanks for your reply Jay. Yes I can see the drive there. So if I click delete (the scary bit!) you are sure it won't erase the drive? It's a work drive so you understand my caution!
- Graham
Community Manager
Hi richp75,
Happy Friday! I hope you're having a good week!
Deleting anything can be a scary situation, especially when it's a whole drive's worth of important work stuff! So, I just wanted to check in with you to make sure everything when smoothly when you got around to pressed the button.
Thanks!
