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OldAbe
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2 years ago
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Cannot find the backup button in "Preferences"

Any thoughts on what I am missing? Is this a setting that a workplace (higher education) administrator could have turned off? Thanks!      
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 years ago
    OldAbe wrote:

    Is this a setting that a workplace (higher education) administrator could have turned off?

    If you're part of a team account, yes, your team admin could have the Backup feature turned off. However I don't know if that would make the Backups tab disappear or not.

     

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Rich
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2 years ago
OldAbe wrote:

Is this a setting that a workplace (higher education) administrator could have turned off?

If you're part of a team account, yes, your team admin could have the Backup feature turned off. However I don't know if that would make the Backups tab disappear or not.

 

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    OldAbe
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Thanks Rich! That seems like a plausible option and one that I can follow up with internally. Alternatively, I can always try to do it piecemeal with selective sync on subfolders. (349 GB Dropbox folder with only 150 GB left on computer SSD).

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