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how do I eject my external hard drive without deleting everything
I recently synced my dropbox to my external hard drive. However, I have heard that if you remove your external hard drive from your macbook then everything on your dopbox will be deleted. How do I ej...
Thanks for the info. If the Dropbox folder is on the external drive, then you need to ensure that you fully quit the Dropbox desktop application from your machine prior to removing the drive to prevent any deletions.
Likewise, when you next want to run the app, make sure the drive is connected and mounted under the same drive or name to prevent deletions.
Walter
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Dropbox Community ModeratorYou can use selective sync to remove some folders from your hard drive as this would help free up some space, if needed carlosr27
And yes, if you eject your hard drive while the desktop app is syncing, this will probably lead to some data loss, so I'd advise against it.
Thank you again Walter! I will try that. Only issue is that my dropbox is 36TB and my hard drive is 12TB so it will probably take a very long time to do that. If there is anything else I can do, please let me know!
- Nancy
Hi Carlos! Sorry to jump in here.
Did you follow these steps to move your Dropbox folder from your external drive to your internal drive?
Are you able to open your app preferences, and try Walterâs suggestion above about selective sync?
Hi Nancy, I would follow those steps but my internal hard drive is only 500GB, my dropbox has 36TB of files and my external hard drive only has 12TB so I just want to cancel the sync process until I get a new hard drive.
- Nancy
Hi again, Carlos!
In this case, you can try unlinking - relinking your Dropbox app to your new hard drive once it arrives (you should be able to pick the syncing location of your choice by selecting the âAdvanced link settingsâ before completing the sign-in process). Please keep in mind though, that since the Dropbox app hasn't fully synced on your current drive, this may result in data loss.
What Iâd suggest, to be safe, is to make a copy of your files to another location (outside of Dropbox - perhaps on your old external drive), so that you donât lose anything during the process.
