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I would like to schedule my Camera Uploads so that I have a chance to remove/organize things before they're uploaded. Ideally I could have options to set either the time or frequency - i.e. 2am every day, or "any item older than 6 hours." Two examples (on android) today: Sometimes I take 2 or 3 photos in order to choose the best one and delete the others. But even if I delete them quickly, dropbox is too efficient(!) and they've already upload there, where i have to clean them up again. If I take a screenshot and then edit it to add, say pen coverage, it uploads to dropbox as 2 files, even if I save over the original locally. Often I'm annotating an image to text to someone, but don't need it backed up in dropbox at all, so I'd delete it before uoload.5Views0likes1CommentI get an error when trying to delete my external drive backup.
When I go to back up (https://www.dropbox.com/backup/all?_tk=web_left_nav_bar) and select the external hard drive, there is a red X and the word Error under "Status", and when I click on it, it warns me that it can't back up device, and device needs to be plugged in to restart the backup process. It IS connected and visible on my Finder (I'm using MacOs 12.7.6). When I select the hard drive from Backups and choose "delete," I get another error message that says "1 item can't be deleted." This 1 item is the ONLY item in the back up, and it is clogging up my whole storage. I never asked for it to back up the external hard drive, and now I am stuck, unable to use Dropbox because I have exceeded storage. I tried to add a screenshot of the window, but it won't allow me to paste it here.Solved26Views0likes5CommentsAutomatically pause Dropbox Backup/syncing to allow unmounting of external drive.
Stop Dropbox from preventing unmounting of drives that are currently being backed up. Instead pause backup and allow unmounting. Resume backup when drive is mounted again. (Same behavior could maybe be implemented for sync (Dropbox folder), but at least for backup of external drives.) Backblaze does this, so it's clearly possible.64Views3likes6CommentsDropbox Backup won't recognize external drive on MacOS Sequoia 15.2
Hello, I cannot get my external drive to show up in the "Add a backup" section of the Dropbox Backup. I've read a bunch of posts about this issue and it seems like there is no solution. Some have said erasing and reformatting their drive worked (an absurd "solution"), but that hasn't for me. I've also done all the other suggestions that Dropbox support and others have put forth to no avail. Is there really no fix for this? Apparently people have been having this problem for years now. Thanks for any info or help.89Views0likes11CommentsMoving files on my desktop to the trash deletes them immediately instead.
I am running Dropbox Backup. On MacOS, when I drag a file on my desktop to the trash, it is deleted automatically. In other words, it does not appear in the trash in case I want to recover it later. I get a warning that says"This item will be deleted immediately.You can't undo this action." When the same file is in any other folder or location on my computer besides the Desktop, and I drag it to the trash, the behavior is normal - the files goes into the trash where I can see it and recover it if need be. I am running Dropbox Backup on Sequoia 15.2 on a 2020 M1 Macbook Air. Any thoughts?45Views0likes7CommentsAutomated Dropbox Backup to LaCie d2 Professional
Hey everyone, In our office, we use Dropbox to save all our files, keeping everything up to date since we work on a project basis. Recently, we decided to enhance file security, so we purchased a LaCie d2 Professional 14TB storage device. Can anyone guide us on how to set up an automated backup from Dropbox to the LaCie d2 Professional maybe like a weekly or certain period of time, Appreciate it !! Thanks18Views0likes0CommentsBackup
Sir/Madam I am a very worried Dropbox user after 20 years. I have two computers in case one goes faulty. I downloaded one document unto computer number 1In a different location I switched to computer number 2 but was unable to work on the same document I realised that comp1 had not saved the document on DB and was offered the chance to backup the contents of comp1 which I did. I then backed up comp2 hoping to have them in a common location where I can access the document I was looking for. Sadly, the documents have been moved to an unknown location and cannot be accessed on either computer. Would you please please restore my documents to their original location where I can reach the same document from either computer as it amounts to many years of work. Many thanks.12Views0likes1CommentMy files disappeared from my backup on the computer
I'm totally baffled! I appear to be paying for a service I'm not receiving. I joined Dropbox over a year ago, but realised only recently that nothing was being backed-up. My son, who is far more tech savvy than I am, thought he'd got it sorted. I could find my files in Backup - but they'd disappeared from my computer. Why? It's a Back-up, not a wipe clean! So over the holiday we tried again, as none of the recent files were backed-up. This time the files and folders which I'd had to recreate were Backed-up and remained on my computer BUT all the previously backed-up files and folders had disappeared from the Back-up - and this included 10 years work in my Family History Files. Where are they? They weren't even in the deleted folder! I'm now in a worse mess than if I'd never joined. What is going on? The program is far from intuitive, and is causing me a lot of aggravation.127Views0likes17Comments