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Jennifer G.29
4 years agoHelpful | Level 6
No dialog box when connecting external HD?
I want to back up my external HD to my Dropbox account.
What should happen: When I connect the external drive, I should get a popup that asks if I want to back up the external drive, I select i...
Megan
Dropbox Staff
Hi Setchy1222, I'd be more than happy to help.
I've merged your post under this similar thread since it matches what you initially asked.
Would you mind taking a look at what was previously suggested?
Also, what is the size of your external hard drive?
Let me know how it goes.
I've merged your post under this similar thread since it matches what you initially asked.
Would you mind taking a look at what was previously suggested?
Also, what is the size of your external hard drive?
Let me know how it goes.
Setchy1222
3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
External drive is 4TB and there is no solution here that worked. I've erased and reformatted the drive and there is still no prompt. Dropbox desktop app is still not recognizing it.
- Matt B13 years agoHelpful | Level 5
I’m in the same situation as all the other users in this thread. I upgraded my account to Pro in order to backup a 2TB external drive but, having previously declined to sync it, there’s no way to get Dropbox to ask again.
Do I take it that there’s no solution and I need to request a refund?
- Setchy12223 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Yeah, I don't think there's any hope. I gave up and downgraded to a free account.
- Theo_A3 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Why in the world hasn't DBX added an option from the system tray dropdown menu to "Backup External Drives" which should then reinstate the prompt that we're all looking for when you plug a drive in?! This is insane. Same issue here. Accidentally clicked I didn't want to Backup, now I do want to backup entire external drive, but there seems to be no way to make DBX recognize drive again when I re-plug back into computer.
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