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Sam Toor
Helpful | Level 6
8 months ago

Auto backup not working on my windows pc

Hi, I just bought a Seagate HDD and I wanted to backup on dropbox. it has unlimited storage offer but when I connect, its stuck on 0%. Its 11am here and the backup should start 10:21am as activated. ...
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  • Sam Toor's avatar
    Sam Toor
    8 months ago

    Ok so finally it started auto backup yesterday where I did nothing. I think Dropbox takes time to make a pre -backup first. Once it estimated the total storage after more then 24 hours, then it started making the actual backup. 

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Hannah
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Hey Sam, happy Monday!

 

Is the backup status still the same today?

Sam Toor's avatar
Sam Toor
Helpful | Level 6
8 months ago

Ok so finally it started auto backup yesterday where I did nothing. I think Dropbox takes time to make a pre -backup first. Once it estimated the total storage after more then 24 hours, then it started making the actual backup. 

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