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Can u try to upgrade to v170? I think that should fix the issue
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Thank you for trying that out! I guess then we will need some additional info to debug this issue. I’m not sure what’s the process to collect user id info. @"Walter" can you help collect the info and forward it to backup dev team to further debug?
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Hey @"Podblast", I guess your machine might somehow ran into an edge case that was not accounted for. Could you sign out and sign in again, and restart Dropbox to see if that will fix the problem?
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@"Mark" that is because the new capability released very recently for new computer backup. For the existing one, you are right and that’s still the case. And I believe you can quickly test it out by setting up the computer backup and verify if there is symbolic link created?
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@"Rich" that’s no longer true since I believe dropbox recently released the ability to backup these folders without moving them.
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Depending on the backup type, it might because the backup is under its own namespace instead of root namespace. What you can do is to list all the namespace and concatenation the ns with the path.
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It sounds like you can use the dropbox backup feature which should upload the external drive content to dropbox without consuming any disk space. When you plug in the drive, there is a prompt showing up which can instructs how to set it up. Otherwise, you can find it from the Preference -> Backups -> Manage Backup to set…
