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LendriMujina
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Can I opt out of the Dropbox Backup update without disabling Backup?

The Dropbox Backup update is going to cause some serious problems for me for one reason: the removal of the "Make files online-only" feature is a lot of the reason I use Dropbox in the first place, b...
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LendriMujina
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Thank you. Right now I don't have much of a choice but to delete a very large amount of my data, and that's proving stressful because not all of it can be replaced.

 

There is also the matter of the notification window. I can't close it without either accepting the update or disabling Backup. Clicking the close button does nothing. For the time being I have to just move it out of the way and try to ignore it.

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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey LendriMujina, thanks for your feedback on this.

 

Regarding the notification window you mentioned, are you still having an issue with it?

 

Have you restarted the computer, to see if that helps?

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