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Amy
Community Manager
2 years agoWhat’s new with Dropbox Backup
We’ve seen some threads from Community members about how you use Dropbox Backup and we are here with an update and some info you might like to know. The team saw your feedback and have changed some t...
happychaps
2 years agoNew member | Level 2
When will we have the capability to select folders outside of the hierarchy shown? As other users have requested, I would like to pick any folders on my computer drive for automatic backup, and thought I was going to get this with the new backup.
DBoxTips
2 years agoExperienced | Level 13
happychaps wrote:When will we have the capability to select folders outside of the hierarchy shown? As other users have requested, I would like to pick any folders on my computer drive for automatic backup, and thought I was going to get this with the new backup.
While no longer possible with Dropbox Backup, this is still possible using third party software that integrates with the Dropbox desktop application, like Boxifier (Windows only, it would be great to have something like this for macOS).
Andrew (DBoxTips)
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