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Dalewo
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12 months ago

I can't move my Dropbox folder on to an external hard drive; I get the error it's not compatible.

Just bought (Nov 2024) a 14TB Seagate External drive with the intention of moving my Dropbox folder off my PC's C: drive over to the external drive.  When I followed the method to do this per the Dro...
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Rich
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12 months ago
Dalewo wrote:

I got a warning message that the Seagate was not compatible with Dropbox. I checked the Seagate's properties and it says the file system is exFAT.

On Windows, the drive needs to be NTFS-formatted. You can't put the Dropbox folder on an exFAT-formatted drive on Windows.

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