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jsauser11
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago
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I need to sync my Documents folder in real time with the rest of my computers

Howdy. Installed desktop ver. 197.4.7571 on my Windows 10 desktop machine today, and made a mistake to set my online Documents folder to BACKUP. Now the files that are in that folder are on my Wind...
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  • jsauser11's avatar
    jsauser11
    2 years ago

    Worked it out. Moved my documents folder into the dropbox folder and now multi unit sync is back to where it was before setting up Backup.

jsauser11's avatar
jsauser11
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Worked it out. Moved my documents folder into the dropbox folder and now multi unit sync is back to where it was before setting up Backup.

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Ravip
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Did you end up disabling Backup permanently?

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    jsauser11
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    Yes I did.

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