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Ursula B.
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4 years ago
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Backing up Windows 11 desktop

Hi, I am trying to backup my windows 11 desktop to dropbox. The dropbox folder on this machine is on an external drive as the Surface go 2 I have bought max's out at 250gb. When i attempt to setup ba...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    4 years ago

    There isnt a way around this I'm afraid - Dropbox simply isnt designed to work on external drives and is technically not really supported as the risks of data loss are so huge. 

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Mark
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4 years ago

There isnt a way around this I'm afraid - Dropbox simply isnt designed to work on external drives and is technically not really supported as the risks of data loss are so huge. 

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