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DigiluxAmsterdam's avatar
DigiluxAmsterdam
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Turn off hard drive back up

Hello, juts tried the new feature hard drive back-up. You can eve choose folders. So I picked my most important folder, my main dj folder with 300gb music. But dropbox is doing  something with that f...
  • Hannah's avatar
    4 years ago
    Hey DigiluxAmsterdam, thanks for reaching out to our Community!

    When it comes to the external drive backup, even though there's no specific button, you can just delete the backup folder from Dropbox to stop the backup.

    Deleting it in Dropbox will only delete it from there, not your external drive.

    Let me know if you have any questions.

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