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Dropbox and Time machine

Hello,


I am trying to make a backup of a DropBox folder on my AirPort using Timemachine. However when I enter TM and look at the backups from previous dates the content in DB is always that of the current date, having for example files that were created on March 3rd on the TM backup from February 27th. All the other folders work fine.


Has anyone encountered this problem or has an opinion on what may be happening?


Thanks a lot,


JR

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Mar 5, 2015 6:30 AM

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Mar 5, 2015 2:43 PM in response to PepeRevah

Dropbox can be a problem. Please read this carefully.

Time Machine does not backup all of my files


There are plenty of articles around the web. eg


http://tidbits.com/article/13575


Mostly we recommend people do not include dropbox in the backup. It will blow out the backup and gain very little.


If you wish to include it then my recommendation would be to use a different backup software.. eg Carbon Copy Cloner.

Dropbox and Time machine

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