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Why does DB constantly fix things that aren't broken? I discovered the new backup "feature" when I uploaded from a thumb drive to DB. The next morning when I tried to share the file, I discovered...
Hey Angie C.3, thanks for posting on our Community and sharing your thoughts on this with us.
It sounds like you enabled the Dropbox Backup feature for your external thumb drive instead of copying or moving the files from there inside your Dropbox folder.
If that's so, what you mentioned is indeed expected and you'd need to upload them to your account as you outlined if you'd like to share them as well, and not only back them up to your Dropbox account.
I hope this clears things up a tad.
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey Angie C.3, thanks for posting on our Community and sharing your thoughts on this with us.
It sounds like you enabled the Dropbox Backup feature for your external thumb drive instead of copying or moving the files from there inside your Dropbox folder.
If that's so, what you mentioned is indeed expected and you'd need to upload them to your account as you outlined if you'd like to share them as well, and not only back them up to your Dropbox account.
I hope this clears things up a tad.
Thank you, Walter. I appreciate your speed!
It sounds like you enabled the Dropbox Backup feature for your external thumb drive instead of copying or moving the files from there inside your Dropbox folder.
Can you explain how and at what stage I may have done this? I didn't know the function existed at the time, and I don't recall being given a choice (which is not to say it didn't happen).
