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I had an older MacBook M1 configured with two external drives that were successfully backed up using Dropbox Backup. The backups completed and had been working perfectly for several years automatically updating with any new data. Today I migrated to a new MacBook M4. The same two physical drives are connected, with the…
Hello. On July 31, I accidentally deleted my laptop's 'Desktop' folder, which was located inside the folder named '2Проекты' . After that, I successfully moved other heavy files out of Dropbox to free up my space, and my account is now clear (using only 195 KB). When I try to restore the 'Desktop' folder from Deleted…
Hello, I'm dealing with the biggest emergency of 2026. I erased Dropbox through Mac Settings (Documents - File Browser) by mistake, since I completely forgot that my desktop was automatically synchronized to Dropbox. Now it shows like the screen capture below. I searched and found two possible ways of recovering it: 1. Use…
I have a new Mac and am trying to retrieve my Documents folder from my old Mac in Dropbox backups. It does not appear in the Dropbox app on my new Mac but i can see it on my old Mac. How do I get these across to the new computer?
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…
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What gives? I can only backup files in the \User folder? Thats not a backup program. It's a 4 legged animal with only 2 legs!!
I've recently signed up with Dropbox Backup and added my external hard drive. I enabled backup for this drive, and selected 'Backup Now' rather than waiting for it to schedule a backup at 9am tomorrow morning. Since doing so the drive remains at 90-100% usage, but not a single file has been uploaded in over 4 hours. It…
I have used Dropbox for years to sync the Documents and Downloads folders of my home, office, and travel Macs (i.e., I can work on any of the three machines at anytime and they are all synced). Last year, I discovered that I heed to use symlinks to do this on a new office machine and so far, it seems to be working. Today I…
Hello! I used to use the backup feature of Dropbox for my computer. Notably, this included my Documents folder (on Windows 10). At some point I turned off the backup feature because I thought I didn't need it any more. I thought this would stop the integration with my computer gracefully, but it seems that now many of my…
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