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Unipenguin's avatar
Unipenguin
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago

External backup doesn't show on Android App

Howdy!  I just noticed that while I have access to my PC backup in the Dropbox app on my phone, the backup for my external drive is not shown or accessible in the app. It shows up fine online, and th...
  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    9 months ago

    Hi Unipenguin, it is no longer possible to access your backups from any device, other than the Dropbox Backup page

     

    In this case, you shouldn't be able to access the PC backup from the Dropbox mobile app, so this most likely isn't intentional, and may be corrected to the current version in the future.

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