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Manne Kjellander's avatar
Manne Kjellander
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2 months ago
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Automatically pause Dropbox Backup/syncing to allow unmounting of external drive.

Stop Dropbox from preventing unmounting of drives that are currently being backed up. Instead pause backup and allow unmounting. Resume backup when drive is mounted again.

(Same behavior could maybe be implemented for sync (Dropbox folder), but at least for backup of external drives.)

Backblaze does this, so it's clearly possible.

  • dravenlocke87's avatar
    dravenlocke87
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    This is such a good suggestion! It’s super frustrating when you can’t unmount a drive because dropbox is holding onto it. Hopefully dropbox considers adding this feature.

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    Hi Manne,

    Thank you for sharing your feature idea with us! We think it’s an interesting suggestion, and we’ll be exploring it internally with our team. We appreciate your input and encourage you to keep sharing your thoughts with us!

    Regards,
    Vlad

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    This idea has been closed due to inactivity. 

    Thank you for your suggestion, and if you have another idea to share, please do!