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Robert J.
Collaborator | Level 9
10 years ago

Problem with making a local backup of Dropbox folder (version 14.3.17)

I make periodic full backups of my Dropbox folder to an external hard drive. This is (or used to be) simply done by copying and pasting the folder to the external drive. That worked perfectedly until...
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Rich
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10 years ago
Robert J. wrote:

It would be easier to work out exactly which client I was on at the time from the beta release notifications if the forum gave more precise dates of posting than 'n weeks ago'.

Change the setting in your preferences.

 

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Robert J.
Collaborator | Level 9
10 years ago

Many thanks for the pointer towards the setting page.

 

So I was almost certainly on 13.3.19 when my previous backup worked.

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