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Tudordropper
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2 years ago

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 Dd...
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Hannah
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2 years ago

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!

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