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I don't see my external drive backup files, even though the backup is completed.
It's my first time using Dropbox Backup and I wanted to backup my external hard drive before I change the settings on it. On the Dropbox Backup homepage, it says backup is completed, but when I click to view backed up files, only my folders are there and nothing else. I've checked on multiple computers and still nothing. Please help.I added a folder to Dropbox from the website, but only 200 files got uploaded.
I added one folder from my D drive to my Dropbox backup and it quickly backed up about 200 files and then stopped. Nothing else got backed up. So, I deleted that folder from Dropbox and added it again, with the same result. Can anyone tell me what's going on?
How does Dropbox backup differ to the standard syncing?
Hi there, I have implemented Dropbox on my laptop as the folder where I have all my files and folders saved and synchronized in real time. This is what I call the Dropbox memory. Now I learned about Dropbox backups and my question is: What do I need this for? Doesn't it overlap with the "memory" function? When I connected an external hard disk, I was asked if I want to save the files in a Dropbox backup. I clicked YES and now the hard disk files are stored as a backup in the cloud. This is great. So, it doesn't seem to be possible, at least not with a private license, to save the external hard disk files in the same way as I save my laptop hard disk files. So, the backup is a nice alternative. But again: For the files in my laptop hard disk that are saved and synchronized directly under the Dropx box folder, my impression is that a backup doesn't make sense (and even doesn't seem to be possible). Does this more or less make sense? Best Thomas
Dropbox External Drive Backup - Changing Computers
I’ve just found out when you change Laptop / Desktop you can’t continue to use the same external hard drive with Dropbox Backup. This is absolute madness. If you want to continue to use that hard drive with Dropbox Backup you have to re upload the full HD. I have 2TB used on a 4TB external SSD and I’ve just changed to a new MacBook. I’m having to spend three days uploading / backing-up all my data again just to continue to use that same drive with the new device. What a waste of energy, electricity, data and bandwidth. For no reason. My old backup is sitting there in my account with all the same data and I just have to re-upload 2TB of the exact same files for no reason other than Dropbox can’t set up a way to re-link an external hard drive on on a new system. I can’t believe this is the current state of affairs for this service.
Dropbox lets me back up the entire Documents folder, but not an individual subfolder.
Hey there! I'm a little new to using dropbox after stopping about a decade ago, the backup feature seems pretty useful to sync files between my devices, but i'm having an issue: I can only tell the dropbox application to backup my entire documents folder. If I try to select an individual folder or folders within the documents folder, it will simply not do anything. I don't seem to have this issue with other folders, if I enter desktop, it lets me select individual folders that are within my desktop, does anyone know what the issue might be?
Can I back up my computer files and have them accessible on other devices?
I recently purchased a new iMac, and would love to set up my desktop the same way as I did with my laptop (also Mac). My primary working files & folders are on my desktop, and are synced to dropbox so that I can also access them elsewhere. I don't recall how I set it up, but after much googling Obviously used Dropbox Backup. How can I get my desktop to function the same way? Much appreciated! SI can't enable Dropbox Backup as there's a conflict with iCloud.
I am trying to set up Dropbox Backup, and when I selected Desktop, Documents, and Downloads to be backed up, it told me to disable the iCloud backup of these folders. When I attempted to do that, it said all of my files would be deleted from my computer and stored in iCloud-and any new files or folders would not be stored in iCloud. I want to use Dropbox to backup these files and folders, but do not want all of those files to be deleted from my computer. Any other way to do this?
