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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. There are no other tabs or pop ups that happen when I click it. How do I make use of this feature if the button doesn't do anything?
Backup Status Report
I'd like a report which shows the current status of Dropbox Backup for all of the machines I administer: Enabled / Disabled [Username]/folder(s) This is important because some of our machines are shared If we can further differentiate "Enabled / Disabled" by "Enabled on some accounts", that'd be amazing, but I'd need to be able to blacklist some accounts: I don't want a local admin account (which we expect to have no persistent data) to show up in the list. If we can't do that, then just [Username]/folder(s) would be sufficient for my usecase Storage space used I understand that there's a Dropbox Backup activity report, but that is (in practice) impossible to parse into current status. (Yes, I'm crazy: I tried.)
How do I choose a Backup source that isn't one of the generic pre-listed opions?
When I attempt to set up a backup using TaskbarIcon|Profile|Preferences|Backup, then choose "Mange Backups" in the Windows section, all I'm presented with for backup sources are a few generic folders, like "Documents" and "Desktop", which are of no value to me for Backup, because they're being Synced already. I can't for the life of me figure out how to specify the real drive locations that I need backed up. What am I missing?
I want to move my Dropbox folder to D drive but it says I have to disable backup
Hello, I read some other advice about this, and this is how far I got before I got stuck. Opened the Drobox app on my Taskbar. Clicked on my Avatar and then picked Preferences. Went down to Sync. Clicked on Dropbox Folder Location, changed it to my D Drive. Started moving, then stopped and said I had to disable PC Backup. Opened up the app on the Taskbar again and paused syncing indefinitely. Went through all the steps again, but got the same message. Any suggestions? RenateDocuments 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 computer. In checking dropbox.com, some of the documents / folder are in Backup on dropbox for my previous Mac, but I need to stop Dropbox taking over my document folder on my current mac, and get back the docs that were happily there just a week ago. Any suggestions? thanks Jon
