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jhild
New member | Level 2
10 months ago

My entire Mac home folder now exists within dropbox?!

To my great surprise, I just realized that my entire Mac home folder now exists within dropbox! I learned this while aboard a plane without internet access.  I see that within dropbox settings, the...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    10 months ago

    Hi jhild, thanks for messaging the Community!

     

    Are you referring to the Dropbox Backup feature? Are you interested in disabling that feature?

     

    Have you tried marking your Dropbox folder as available offline?

     

    Keep me posted!

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Jay
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Hi jhild, thanks for messaging the Community!

 

Are you referring to the Dropbox Backup feature? Are you interested in disabling that feature?

 

Have you tried marking your Dropbox folder as available offline?

 

Keep me posted!

jhild's avatar
jhild
New member | Level 2
10 months ago

Hi, thanks for your help. While I wasn't concerned about the backup feature, I did learn that you could right click on a folder and choose to make it available offline, which is what I did. 

Gracias.

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