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bs98909
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago
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Adding an external drive to the backup cloud devices

I have Preferences / Backups already setup, how do I manually add an external drive?

 

I have the check box for "External Drive Backups" and under devices I see that I have three devices listed. 

 

How do I manually add a HDD as an item to be backed up - Theis external drive is always attached to my iMac and it contains my Dropbox folder.

 

HELP!

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    2 years ago

    After reading your original post again, I realized that you wanted to backup the external drive, which also contained your Dropbox folder. This isn't possible when using the Dropbox Backup feature.

     

    If you want to backup the drive, then you need to move the Dropbox folder away from the external drive.

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