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eliasedlund's avatar
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 should add that the hard drive space issue caused a crash in Ableton Live so bad that it couldn't save and then corrupted my preferences, all my hours of setup to get the colours, key commands, saved folders, audio setup etc lost. It has now resolved itself by deleting the files and deleting the folder that was stuck syncing and reuploading (I had a copy seperate to dropbox fortunately.) Still I think 75Gb of logs created in one day on the system drive (seperate to the dropbox folder) is unacceptable.

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