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Anonymous
8 years ago
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Want to stop syncing

For some reason my Dropbox started "sycning" without my intending it to.  It is telling me it is syncing 11,140 files.  I want to stop this.  It may have happened when I opened the files in iCloud, b...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    8 years ago

    Dropbox will sync any changes that are made in your Dropbox folder. To stop a particular file or folde from syncing, move it out of the Dropbox folder.

    If it's in the Dropbox folder, it's going to sync.

Rich's avatar
Rich
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
8 years ago

Dropbox will sync any changes that are made in your Dropbox folder. To stop a particular file or folde from syncing, move it out of the Dropbox folder.

If it's in the Dropbox folder, it's going to sync.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Okay.  Thanks for your response!

  • Mac1998's avatar
    Mac1998
    Explorer | Level 4
    7 years ago

    I never synced before. All of a sudden dropbox is syncing. I have software to move files that I want to save to drop box. I dont want auto sync. Any answers?

  • Beehivetalk's avatar
    Beehivetalk
    Explorer | Level 4
    6 years ago

    How can I move the file out of dropbox folder, I want to stop Syncing... need serious help, it has finish my data twice now

  • tess e's avatar
    tess e
    Collaborator | Level 8
    4 years ago

    There should be a button to push to stop syncing to pc. When mine started the massive original backup the minute I reinstalled DB, it created DB folders for all my pc files.  I did not approve it and would be nice if there was an option to stop the back up from pc

  • JaMaL69's avatar
    JaMaL69
    Helpful | Level 5
    3 years ago

    I have the same issue. I want to STOP syncing because it is syncing all kinds of files (thousands!) from my PC - NOT only folders in my Dropbox folder! Please help? I turned off PC backup so why is it still syncing all my files?!

    • Hannah's avatar
      Hannah
      Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
      3 years ago

      Hey JaMaL69 , sorry to see you're having issues with this.

       

      Just to confirm, did you follow the steps in this article to disable backup?

       

      If you hover your mouse over your Dropbox icon, what's the sync status of the Dropbox app?

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