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Henryrchrd
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8 hours ago

How safe is it to move my Dropbox folder to an external HDD drive?

Hi everyone, I am a video editor working with large RAW footage files through Dropbox and I'm trying to optimize my storage setup after adding a new drive. My setup is a newly purchased 10TB Ex...
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Nancy
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2 hours ago

Hey Henryrchrd, welcome back to our forum! 

The setup that you’re suggesting could indeed work.

However, even though I’m not personally using the same setup, I’d advise you to always make sure that your HDD is connected to your computer before you turn it on and that you don’t disconnect the drive while Dropbox is running. 

If Dropbox is unable to detect the local Dropbox folder at any given time, it may perceive this as an act of deletion and it’ll proceed to also delete your files from your Dropbox account online (which also sync these updates to any other devices you may have linked to Dropbox). 

Let me know, if you have any other questions.

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