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BenJohnston
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2 years ago

Selecting a single folder to backup (without synching previous files which are online)

Hi all. Apologies if I'm duplicating posts already here - couldn't see anything from my search.   Some years ago, I used Dropbox to synch one location on my machine as a backup. Important stuff w...
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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi BenJohnston, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

Just for clarification, are you trying to sync a folder that is outside the normal Dropbox folder, and one that isn't in an external drive?

 

This will help me to assist further!

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