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JustAsking25
Explorer | Level 4
2 months ago

Re: Can I back up my Dropbox folder to an external drive if my internal drive is not big enough?

I thought initially that the Mountain Duck suggestion would solve my problem. I have installed Mountain Duck and tried to copy my Dropbox folders over to an external drive. Some of the smaller folders copied over without a problem. But Mountain Duck gets stuck on the large folders (>50GB).

I get different errors such as 'some files cannot be read or written' or 'The folder needs to be downloaded first'. I have opened a ticket with Mountain Duck but for now my problem remains unsolved. 

I might just have to move to a different shared service.

 

 

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