<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On<span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px;" class="">7 Mar 2017 14:27:58 -0600</span>,<span class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; float: none; display: inline !important;"> Herbert Schulz <</span><a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px;">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a><span class="" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; float: none; display: inline !important;">></span> wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">On Mar 7, 2017, at 2:13 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">There _is_ a symlink to ~/Documents in ~/Dropbox, but normally Dropbox is NOT open; I use it only infrequently. I also use iDrive, but without Continuous data protection or even scheduled backups ?just on-demand.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">What do you mean by `normally Dropbox is NOT open'. Unless you actually turn syncing off it definitely will sync</span><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px;" class="">. To temporarily turn syncing off click on the DropBox icon and then hover your mouse over the up to date message at the lower left of the window; it will change to a pause syncing message which you can then click. See if that helps.</span></div></blockquote><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px;" class=""></div>No, there’s NO Dropbox icon in the Mac’s menu bar, and no Dropbox process running (except for Dropbox Finder Integration). Dropbox does _not_ start up when the Mac boots. So there’s no syncing to pause!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I use only Dropbox when I want to, by starting Dropbox.app; normally it’s completely off, closed, not running.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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