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mmo
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4 years ago
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How to stop DropBox from asking whether to back up a USB stick

Whenever I connect a USB stick to my computer Dropbox pops up and asks me whether I want to backup that stick to Dropbox and I have to click that darn dialog away AGAIN. I never have and never will b...
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    Rich
    4 years ago

    @mmo  wrote: 
     

    Whenever I connect a USB stick to my computer Dropbox pops up and asks me whether I want to backup that stick to Dropbox ... how do I stop this annoying nonsense that I have never asked for?

    You can disable it on the Backup tab in Dropbox Preferences.

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Rich
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4 years ago

@mmo  wrote: 
 

Whenever I connect a USB stick to my computer Dropbox pops up and asks me whether I want to backup that stick to Dropbox ... how do I stop this annoying nonsense that I have never asked for?

You can disable it on the Backup tab in Dropbox Preferences.

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mmo
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Thanks for the hint! It made me aware that my DropBox client obviously was in some odd state and while DropBox obviously still worked (as I could notice by these popups mentioned) and also properly synced files its icon did not show up anymore in the taskbar. No idea where it went...

 

Since I couldn't figure out, how to make it re-appear in the taskbar I un- and re-installed the DropBox client. Now it shows up again and I was able to open the preferences dialog and in that I was able to switch this off as suggested.

 

Thanks again!

 

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