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eliasedlund
Explorer | Level 4
18 days ago

Dropbox keeps on trying to upload 'dbx.external.drive' on MacOS 15.6

Hi. I've tried to clear out all of my backups from Dropbox. I was previously backing up two external drives, but I don't want to do that anymore.  So I've deleted the drives from the Backup Manager...
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Jasper B.3's avatar
Jasper B.3
Helpful | Level 5
14 days ago

I'm having the same issue on PC. It's bringing my system to a crawl as the logs folder is on the minimal OS partition.

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    Jay
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    14 days ago

    Hi Jasper B.3, thanks for the info. In order to look into this matter in more detail, I'd recommend contacting the support team directly for them to investigate further.

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