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Linked Dropbox with Affinity Publisher but Dropbox uploaded entire documents folder - now full
Hi. I have the Affinity Publisher app on both iPad and my Mac. I wanted to sync them both with Dropbox so I could work on one device and when I open the file in another device, the changes will be th...
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorIt sounds like you enabled the computer backup feature on Dropbox, which syncs certain folders to the Dropbox site, which you later disabled.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
Jay, regarding initiating a computer backup, I had no idea how to do a backup to Dropbox until I just now looked it up. Obviously there was a serious glitch when I synced Affinity Publisher to Dropbox.
There are eight steps that must be deliberately taken. You can't just accidentally hit a key and initiate a computer backup. And again, no problem with the Scrivener app sync, and no problem in all my prior years of using Dropbox.
- Open your Dropbox desktop preferences.
- Click the Backups tab.
- Click Set up.
- Under Add a backup, select the computer or external hard drive you’d like to back up.
- Click Let’s get started (computer) or Back up [drive name] (external hard drive).
- Check the boxes next to the folders you’d like to back up.
- Click Set up or Back up.
- If you’re on a Mac, click OK when prompted to give Dropbox permission to access your folders.
- Jay
Have you been in contact with Affinity to see if they have any info on what you experienced on your device?
