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Lucben's avatar
Lucben
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5 months ago

Issues copying the Dropbox folder to my external drive to back it up

I am on Dropbox Plus, I've installed the desktop app on the latest version of macOS. I do not use Smart Sync, as I want all of my files to be available locally on my machine, as well as online. I reg...
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Rich's avatar
Rich
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5 months ago
Lucben wrote:

I am hearing that these problems are due to the migration to macOS's File Provider. I don't know if that's the case, but this cannot happen. Dropbox must address this issue urgently.

That's correct. This is a result of Apple's new File Provider. It's not something that Dropbox has any control over.

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