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Hebephrene
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

I need to reduce the size of Dropbox on my computer, but I don't see any syncing icons.

I am working with Windows 11 and have drop box installed on two computers, a Microsoft surface and an ACER desktop. The Acer is very recent and has a hardrive capacity of 500 gigs which I thought mor...
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Rich
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2 years ago
Hebephrene wrote:

Am I supposed to use the Link button? I don't see an icon for attaching the files?

You can use the camera icon to attach an image.

 

 

No I want to get the music files off my harddrive and onto the cloud as they are backups of the files I use with Media Monkey which I have stored on a portable hard drive.

Have you thought about using the Backup feature to just back up your portable hard drive instead? Dropbox will back up the drive to your account.

 

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Hebephrene
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

My bad, I could not see the top of your answer where you tell me to use the camera like it was a paper clip. 

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