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53 TopicsBackup every 15 minutes option not available once you surpass 1TB?
Hey everyone, I've got 2tb of Dropbox Plus storage and I'm backing up an external SSD. Up until I surpassed 1tb used, I was able to choose the option to "backup every 15 minutes". Yesterday, after downloading a big music sample library and surpassing 1tb, I lost that option and now the most frequent one I can pick is "once a day". Is this normal? Why wouldn't I be able to backup every 15 minutes just because I'm using a certain amount of storage on my acccount? I'm on Mac OS Ventura 13.7.7, 2019 MacBook Pro 16inch. Any help is appreciated, -EthanSolved155Views0likes8Comments"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?148Views0likes6CommentsBackup 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.)93Views0likes1CommentMacOS: desktop folders are now aliases - How can I switch back?
So my Desktop, Documents, and Downloads folders are no longer folders, but rather aliases to these folders within the dropbox folder. I understand that this is because at some point they were set to be backed up by dropbox. Unfortunately this is completely breaking when I try to use migration assistant to move to a new machine. Not everything is copied over - a bunch of these folders are missing - and the aliases themselves are broken. I want to go back to these folders being real folders and no longer aliases so that I can do the migration. Is it as simple as turning off backups in Dropbox? Will it then move these folders back to where they are supposed to be? Will that delete the backed up files on Dropbox because they have now been removed from the backups? I've read this: "https://help.dropbox.com/organize/delete-dropbox-backup" but it just talks about deleting a backup. I don't want my files deleted. I just want them back to where they belong. I will be doing a time-machine backup before I make any changes to make sure I get everything. But I would also love it if the migration assistant just worked out of the box. Bonus question: I have been reading that Dropbox is changing how it works on MacOS... that there is a "new way" of managing files that would change the above behavior. It would be storing data in ~/Library/CloudStorage. Is this something I should change to be using? If so, how? And what are the consequences of making this change? I've read this: "https://help.dropbox.com/installs/dropbox-for-macos-support" but it is very technical and does not really tell me what the difference is for an end user - i.e. where will my files be stored? How is it different than the way Dropbox worked before from an end user perspective. Thanks!Solved455Views0likes3CommentsHow 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?179Views0likes8CommentsBack up doesn't give C:\ subfolders as an option
I have many working files in subdirectories in my root c:\ drive, example c:\jobs. On the backup window it only gives me the option to backup preset windows folders like \documents, \pictures \ desktop, etc. How can I have access to point at items in my c:\ when setting up a backup plan ?Solved86Views0likes2CommentsI 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? Renate85Views0likes1CommentDocuments 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 Jon193Views0likes1CommentCannot completely disable Dropbox Backup for an USB drive.
I plugged in a USB drive and got an annoying prompt about backing it up. I've never used the Dropbox Backup feature and don't want to, especially not for a drive I'm using itself as a backup. I turned off autoplay completely for now in my Windows settings, but I shouldn't have to do that in order not to use Dropbox Backup. The help page for this is out of date and describes a setting that doesn't exist. There appears to be no way whatsoever to disable backups. So, short of nuking Dropbox completely and moving on to something else for cloud storage, how do I disable the annoying backup feature?Solved1.8KViews0likes15Comments"Adjust Bandwidth limits" button in the Dropbox Backup menu [Advanced Settings] does not work.
My Dropbox Backup process has started, and is painfully slow. 8 hours and it hasn't uploaded 150 GB yet. So, I want to increase the upload bandwidth - however, the menu where these settings are found will not open. I click the button, and nothing happens. Does anyone have a solution? Dropbox Backup -> Advanced Settings -> Adjust bandwidth limits332Views0likes3Comments