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anonymous's avatar
anonymous
7 years ago

Want to stop syncing

For some reason my Dropbox started "sycning" without my intending it to.  It is telling me it is syncing 11,140 files.  I want to stop this.  It may have happened when I opened the files in iCloud, b...
Sync
  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    7 years ago

    Dropbox will sync any changes that are made in your Dropbox folder. To stop a particular file or folde from syncing, move it out of the Dropbox folder.

    If it's in the Dropbox folder, it's going to sync.

Rich's avatar
Rich
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Dropbox will sync any changes that are made in your Dropbox folder. To stop a particular file or folde from syncing, move it out of the Dropbox folder.

If it's in the Dropbox folder, it's going to sync.

tess e's avatar
tess e
Collaborator | Level 8
3 years ago

There should be a button to push to stop syncing to pc. When mine started the massive original backup the minute I reinstalled DB, it created DB folders for all my pc files.  I did not approve it and would be nice if there was an option to stop the back up from pc

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