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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's avatar
Hannah
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2 years ago

Is your D drive an external one, Tudordropper?

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Tudordropper
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago
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


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    Nancy
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    2 years ago

    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.

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