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matthewzammit's avatar
matthewzammit
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

See the Dropbox backup folder on desktop

For Dropbox backup. I believe we used to be able to see these backed-up files within the Dropbox desktop/file system... but it's now only available in the browser. It was really useful to be abl...
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Walter's avatar
Walter
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2 years ago

Thanks for all the additional information and providing your detailed feedback on this too matthewzammit 

 

I've passed it on to the team for their consideration and you can also let us know if you have anything else to add.

 

Cheers!

LordB70's avatar
LordB70
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Perhaps you could post your findings here, Walter? I second what Matthew has detailed above.

What's more, I'm in the browser and I'm struggling to find my backup folder there! It would be REALLY helpful/user friendly for it to be easily visible...

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    2 years ago
    LordB70 wrote:

    Perhaps you could post your findings here, Walter? I second what Matthew has detailed above.

    What's more, I'm in the browser and I'm struggling to find my backup folder there! It would be REALLY helpful/user friendly for it to be easily visible...

    This was a feature previously and removed by Dropbox. I suspect it wont change again if I'm honest as too many people were trying to use it as a version of syncing files (which wasn't its intention). 

     

    Its also worth pointing out Dropbox doesn't release roadmaps of features, we only know they launch when they launch. 

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