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Rafael C.5
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
Backup Dropbox files to an external hard drive
How can I go about making a backup copy of my files that I uploaded to Dropbox to an external hard drive?
- 8 years ago
If you are downloading from the web you can just change your downloads location
ie. Safari > Preferences > General > File Download Location > Select your external hard drive location.
Hope this helps ;)
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Mark
9 years agoSuper User II
How about a bit of a botched work around....
- Create a folder on your machine called 'Not Sync'd' (or whatever you want it to be)
- Put your first hard drives worth of data in to that folder. Let it upload to a green tick - that bit is critical!!
- Remove that folder from your local machine via Selective Sync
- Create a new folder in Dropbox called 'temp' (or whatever)
- Add hard drive 2's data to that folder
- When its at the green tick (again critical) go to www.dropbox.com/home and MOVE the data from that 'Temp' folder to the one you unsync'd in step 3
- That will move the data to the new unsync'd folder and thus delete it off your local computer. You may, however, need to restart Dropbox to clear the cache before moving on if you are short on hard drive space
- Repeat steps 5 and 6 for the other hard drives.
Bit fiddly, but, works well.
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