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bs98909
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3 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.  ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    3 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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Hannah
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3 years ago

Sorry, bs98909, you mentioned that the external drive you want to back up, has your Dropbox folder in it.

 

Do you mean a copy of your Dropbox folder, or the actual syncing Dropbox folder?

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bs98909
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

The rest of the drive the Dropbox is just one of 6 folders on the drive.

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
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    3 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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    bs98909
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    I was a fraud of that; is there a means to select the remaining folders?

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    Jay
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    3 years ago

    No, it will prevent you from choosing that entire external drive to backup, to ensure there aren't any permission issues.

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