CrashPlan and Drop Box large data amounts duplicated

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  1. kapalua12, May 13, 2013

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    I have Drop Box on all my PC's and Macs and Mac notebooks. When I run CrashPlan it is unnecessarily duplicating 13 GB of data when CrashPlan uploads to CrashPlan Central which takes a lot of time and I do not need all these copies of my Drop Box data.

    How do I turn off backing up Drop Box on most of my machines?

    Thanks.
     
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  2. Weaselboy, May 13, 2013
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    Start the Crashplan app on each machine then click the "Change" button I marked. Then navigate to your Dropbox folder under your username and uncheck Dropbox. That will stop Crashplan from backing up the Dropbox folder.

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  3. kapalua12, May 13, 2013

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    Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.
     
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  4. flynz4, May 13, 2013

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    Tom,

    I would recommend keeping everything turned on. 16GB of data is trivial. Just do not worry about it. No reason to obsess over CP. It will finish.

    /Jim
     
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