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pellegrinogrigio
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

How can I stop Dropbox from trying to backup external drives?

Hi guys,   I've been trying for some time now to stop dropbox from: - asking me to backup every external drive I plug in - littering said drives with .dropbox.device files   I've tried ev...
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  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    4 years ago

    Hi pellegrinogrigio, I hope you're doing well! 

    If you open your app's Preferences, and then click the Backups tab, do you see the settings there? 

    Feel free to send a screenshot of what you see there. 

     

    Thanks!
     

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Rich
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4 years ago
pellegrinogrigio wrote:

Is there a way to turn this annoying unrequested feature off once and for all?

Turn off camera uploads. If you're on Windows, that's done in the Autoplay settings of your OS; not Dropbox.

 

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