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Why are Dropbox files regularly copying to my desktop?
Why are Dropbox files regularly copying to my desktop? Even files I delete.
Dropbox wont work if you are also syncing it to OneDrive (as the path shows). You need to stop using it with 2 cloud services.
Also, its no longer possible to sync the Desktop now with Dropbox. It was a feature of the backup system, but, removed when it launched out of beta.
Does this help?
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the screenshots yesthatsandra - much appreciated.
Could you click on the Dropbox icon in your system tray and let me know the app's exact status and version now, after rebooting your computer?
Its says, "Everything is up to date." I'm not sure how to see what "version" I am using. Sorry and thank you for your help!
It doesn't show any files or folders interacted with lately in "Your Activity." In Backups, it says only "PC updated today at 3:33pm."
- Walter
It seems that you enabled the Dropbox Backup feature on your computer yesthatsandra
Could you access the backups tab in the app's preferences and let us know what you see there?
Here is what I see:
- Jay
Hi yesthatsandra, if you click 'Manage backups', what options do you see there?
Thank you for your help! I appreciate everyone trying to help me fix this.
When I click Manage Backups, this is what I see:
- Jay
So, we can see that the Dropbox Backup feature is enabled, meaning that files in certain folders you you've selected in 'Choose folders' would be backed up to the site.
If you wish, you can delete the backup by clicking that button there.
Hello: Thanks for your reply. By choosing to have some folders backed up, is that basically choosing to have them regularly copied to my desktop? If Dropbox keeps my files up to date, I don't need backup to my computer. And if I delete those backed up files, I'm not deleting them from Dropbox, right?
Also, they are not copying to my desktop every fifteen minutes. Is there a way to keep the backup but stop the copying (which is at more like a once a week interval)? thank you!
