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arnaud7
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
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Change devices on backup plan is greyed out

this option is greyed. Is there a limitation on the devices changes ? I have been reorganising all my hard drives several times and it seems I can't add any drive to my storage even if now everything...
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    arnaud7
    4 years ago
    Dropbox backup doesn’t accept encrypted external drives. Problem solved.
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arnaud7
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
Sorry I can’t do a screenshot right now. The option “disable backup “was greyed. Probably because the hard drive I backed up in my dropbox backup plan was disconnected. I can’t connect it anymore since it doesn’t exist anymore. I’ve tried with other drives to understand what happened with this one and why I can’t see it anymore in the app. During this process I added and disabled several drives, and it seems that a drive that has been disabled, can’t be added a second time. I tried to do a clean install of dropbox, and the external drive finally disappeared as expected. But I can’t add any drive since they do not show in dropbox backup app. I tried to unplug all my drives unlog dropbox app, log again dropbox, And plug my drives again, and none of my several drives appear. These drives are APFS encrypted or HFS+ And none appear
arnaud7's avatar
arnaud7
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
Dropbox backup doesn’t accept encrypted external drives. Problem solved.

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