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drjoncallow
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Documents folder on Mac is missing, replaced by Dropbox link

Hi I was looking for my documents on my mac desktop and it has somehow now been linked directly to Dropbox, not my documents on my desktop mac. I cannot find any of my documents that were on my com...
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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey drjoncallow, thanks for reaching out to our Community.

 

If you've enabled our backup feature on your Mac, but do not wish to keep it, you can follow these steps, to disable it.

 

Can you try and let me know how it goes?

 

Thanks!

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