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DigiluxAmsterdam's avatar
DigiluxAmsterdam
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago
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Turn off hard drive back up

Hello, juts tried the new feature hard drive back-up. You can eve choose folders. So I picked my most important folder, my main dj folder with 300gb music. But dropbox is doing  something with that f...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    5 years ago
    Hey DigiluxAmsterdam, thanks for reaching out to our Community!

    When it comes to the external drive backup, even though there's no specific button, you can just delete the backup folder from Dropbox to stop the backup.

    Deleting it in Dropbox will only delete it from there, not your external drive.

    Let me know if you have any questions.
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Hannah
Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
5 years ago
Not a problem!

If you have any more questions, make sure to let us know!
  • Troy Walton's avatar
    Troy Walton
    Explorer | Level 4
    5 years ago

    My dropbox started automatically backup up my external hard drive (without me asking it to do this).

    I cannot find anyway of terminating this backup and it says it will take 2 days to complete.

    I don't what dropbox to back up my external hard drive at all - I cannot find where to switch this off?

    • Megan's avatar
      Megan
      Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
      5 years ago
      Hi Troy Walton, no worries this is why I am here. 

      You can find the steps to disable Computer backup right here. 

      If you have any questions, don't hesitate to let me know!
      • JMH2011's avatar
        JMH2011
        New member | Level 2
        4 years ago

        I am having the same issue.  An external hard drive is trying to backup to Dropbox.  I have gone into preferences and backups and I can't see anything that has to do with my external hard drive. 

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