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I moved Dropbox to D: drive but now my backups don't work
My C; drive is nearly full and 50% of the space is Dropbox. I have a second inbuilt drive that is nearly empty
So I managed to turn of backups within Dropbox and then set Dropbox to use my Ddrive The whole Dropbox folder has moved from C; to D but now the 6 main folders in my user folder (desktop/Downloads/Documents/Music/Pictures/Videos}) will not backup as they are on a difference drives
How do I get the backup/sync to work again?
5 Replies
- Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey Tudordropper, thanks for posting to our Community.
I'm afraid that you can only back up files and folders from the hard drive with the Dropbox desktop app on it.
Essentially, both the backup folders and the Dropbox folder need to be on the same drive for the backups to work.
You can read more about the backups feature here.
I hope this clarifies things, but if you have more questions, feel free to ask!
Can I clarify what you are saying?? I cannot backup C:\users\myname if the dropbox folder is not also on the C: drive?
However, since I can choose to back up the contents of a folder on a external drive, could I move my biggest folders out of C:\users\myname\dropbox onto the D drive and then include those folders to be backed up?
Thanks
Thanks
- Hannah
Is your D drive an external one, Tudordropper?
- My D drive is a 2nd 1Tb SSD installed in my laptop. Now I have the 500Gb Dropbox folder in 😧 and it seems to syncing all except the user folders
TD - Nancy
Hi from me as well, Tudordropper. Since I understand your D drive is an internal drive, and not an external one, I’m afraid it’s not possible to back up these folders again, like Hannah mentioned above.
