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Why is my Downloads folder syncing to the site?
All downloads to my PC are backing up in my onedrive. How do I stop this?
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi kyliem5, thanks for messaging the Community!
I'm sorry to hear about this. Are you instead referring to Dropbox, and not Onedrive, which is another cloud provider? If you are referring to Dropbox, then it sounds like you enabled the automatic computer backup feature in the Dropbox desktop application. Could you first try disabling the computer backup from Dropbox using the steps in the above article to see if this helps?
Afterwards, you can move the folders and files back to their previous locations, which will also delete them from the Dropbox account online.
Let me know how it goes!
This just started happening on my Mac. My downloads folder just started uploading to dropbox and I checked back up settings and I haven't started anything there. I'd really like to not have this happen. Please help.
- Walter
Hey JimHesterman, sorry to hear about this.
Did you enabled the Dropbox Backup feature by accident perhaps?
Could you send us a screenshot of what's shown in the app's preferences under the Backups tab and one of the app's status and version as shown in your menu bar?
Also, do you see any filers or folders on your backups page on the website?
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