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Backup same external drive on new computer
This information is not required, but it makes it easier for our Community members and support team to help you. Device Mac mini Operating System/Browser (if using the web) MacOS 15.5 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) ? Dropbox Plan Essentials Question or Issue I've done backups of my external Samsung Portable SSD for many years on my old MacBook and now I switch to MacMini and what to keep on doing backup of this SSD but dropbox want me to det up a new backup. It's 2TB so I don't want to do that, I just want dropbox to keep on doing backup on it because I've already have download 2TB.... Please help me! Can't find a solution.
Can I sync two Family accounts on the same hard drive?
Dropbox Plan Family Payment Method Card How did you upgrade? website Question or Issue I already have access to two Family Plans, each with different logins. Can I have two Family Plans & have those files on my desktop hard drive. Now I have one plan on my hard drive, but I only access the second plan on dropbox website.
Please allow us to link multiple Business accounts to the Desktop App
I am a freelance motion designer and have run into this issue way too often. I have my own Business account that I use for my freelance business, but whenever I need to be integrated into another agency's company ecosystem, Dropbox does not allow me to sign into their Business profile while staying logged into my own Business account for local working/syncing on the Desktop app. This can be incredibly frustrating if I am working on several projects at one time, which I often do. It would be so righteous if Dropbox allowed the use of signing into multiple Business accounts at one time in order to avoid the back and forth switching and to avoid needing to upload files through the web version to ensure backups are consistent/automatically synced on both accounts. PLEASE! PRETTY PLEASE!
How can I unlink my paired accounts and remove the personal from my computer?
I really feel like this should be incredibly simple and clear but I'm not getting it! On my work PC I have 2 dropbox accounts synced (my personal and my work account) . I want to fully remove my personal dropbox from the PC without deleting the files of course. I cannot find anything on the windows dropbox app that says anything about syncing (admittedly I am a mac user and still a bit clumsy on windows) and all I can seem to do is delete files but then they are deleted everywhere. I want to completely remove all files from my personal account from only this one computer but keep them intact online and on my personal macbook. I don't understand why this is so unclear but I can't figure it out! Device HP Operating System/Browser (if using the web) WindowsHow can I open Dropbox settings when the taskbar icon isn't showing?
The Dropbox taskbar button has disappeared recently (Win11 Pro), DB is running (syncing ok, processes running in task manager) and all icons are set to show in the taskbar so it's not a taskbar config issue. The only solution I've found suggested to this (other than the basic 'check your taskbar settings one) is uninstalling and reinstalling Dropbox but I'm very nervous about doing this as I have a VERY large archive with selective sync and I want to check the config to confirm exactly what is online only before trying the 'move archive out and back into folder after reinstalling' to avoid downloading everything. It would take days (if not weeks) to resync everything on my current connection.
Dropbox starts up when booting Windows, even when disabled in the preferences.
Question or Issue Had to do a clean reinstall of Win11, then added Dropbox. Changed the settings not to load at startup. I prefer to manually sync. But when I return to computer in the morning, I see Dropbox is loaded on the machine and I am logged in. Is there a way to make sure that Dropbox only runs when I decide to use it and sync? Thank you.
