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"Choose folders" option when backing up an external drive is not working
I want to choose specific folders to back up so I'm not using as much storage space. I found this option for my external hard drive, but when I click the "Choose folders" button nothing happens. Ther...
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIDropbox only allows a set number of files and folders to be backed up - namely Documents / Desktop etc. or, whole hard drives.
You cannot choose any folder on your machine, I'm afraid. In terms of why button isnt working, have you tried a restart?
Yes, I'm aware of all of this. i have an external hard drive that is backed up on dropbox, but I don't need all of the folders on the hard drive to be backed up, so I wanted to choose which specific ones were backed up. I have restarted multiple times and the button still does nothing. I also can't even get the dropbox app to open anymore, it just opens an empty dropbox folder when I click the Dropbox app button. At this point I'm probably just going to uninstall and delete dropbox because this is ridiculous and not worth the hassle.
