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jhild
New member | Level 2
2 years ago
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My entire Mac home folder now exists within dropbox?!

To my great surprise, I just realized that my entire Mac home folder now exists within dropbox! I learned this while aboard a plane without internet access.  I see that within dropbox settings, the...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    2 years ago

    Hi jhild, thanks for messaging the Community!

     

    Are you referring to the Dropbox Backup feature? Are you interested in disabling that feature?

     

    Have you tried marking your Dropbox folder as available offline?

     

    Keep me posted!

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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi jhild, thanks for messaging the Community!

 

Are you referring to the Dropbox Backup feature? Are you interested in disabling that feature?

 

Have you tried marking your Dropbox folder as available offline?

 

Keep me posted!

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    jhild
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Hi, thanks for your help. While I wasn't concerned about the backup feature, I did learn that you could right click on a folder and choose to make it available offline, which is what I did. 

    Gracias.

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