UpdraftPlus won't show backup progress on LocalWP without authenticating to Dropbox

What issue or error are you experiencing?

Hey everyone,

Not sure if this is an “UpdraftPlus” issue, or a LocalWP issue, but I wanted to mention this issue that I found. I did not post this in “bugs” because I want anyone searching the forum to be able to see this info (most platforms the “bugs” area is separated off, so less people are going to see it).

So, here it goes.

When creating a site backup with UpdraftPlus – even when choosing to only save locally – I had to authenticate to Dropbox before it would show me the progress meter. This didn’t happen on any of the other servers or web hosts, only on LocalWP.

More Context: I migrated a copy of our production site to LocalWP using UpdraftPlus and that worked great. Only when I went to make a backup on LocalWP did I experience these issues. On prod we have cloud backups to Dropbox scheduled. If you are not backing up to cloud, then you may not have these issues.

Hope this helps someone!

#UpdraftPlus


I noticed on their FAQ page they have steps for re-authenticating Dropbox. I wonder if since you have it set up on production it has to re-authenticate for the environment change?