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Phili1
Explorer | Level 3
7 months ago

I'm trying to back up my external hard drive, but there's no option under my desktop app settings.

Hello! I back up my Mac with Time Machine to an external hard disk that is APFS formatted.  When I go to manage backups in the Dropbox desktop app settings, this hard disk is not displayed fo...
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Phili1
Explorer | Level 3
7 months ago

Hi!


How can I prevent the Dropbox desktop app on the Mac from asking if I want to back up an external drive every time it is connected without automatically backing up that drive?

thanks

phil

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Rich
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7 months ago
Phili1 wrote:

How can I prevent the Dropbox desktop app on the Mac from asking if I want to back up an external drive every time it is connected without automatically backing up that drive?

Go into Dropbox Preferences, select the Backup tab and disable the feature.

 

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