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Here are some of our most frequently asked questions. If you have a question that isn't covered by the FAQ's please create a new topic here. Dropbox account suspended for excessive public-link traffic I get this message: “Public links have been temporarily suspended for generating excessive traffic” on shared links. Quick…
After updating to Sequoia 15.5, the camera upload folder has disappeared from my Dropbox. I have tried reinstalling Dropbox on my phone, and on my Mac - all to no avail. My phone is no longer uploading photos to the dropbox on my Mac. It is uploading them if I go to my Dropbox account page on the internet, but I cannot…
i tried to make shared folder and file between me and my coworkers. on my device the link worked as usual but on my coworker, the excel can't find the workbook link because different directory, for example on my excel it's 'C:\user\Jhon\Dropbox\Folder\Excel.xlsx and on my coworker it's…
I can't join a shared folder. The error message "We were unable to complete your request" keeps popping up. The owner of the folder set it to "can edit", which means I can supposedly edit and access the folder, but I still can't join.
Dropbox backup seems unable to properly read file system of external ExFAT drive. Drive has 795 GB in use—but for first few days of backup, Dropbox believed drive had 50 GB of data, then 70, then 100, then 120 GB... It claims to be done, but then you navigate online backup and find many folders are empty, so you return to…
I can't save an edited PDF with the Windows file explorer open. I thought it was because another user had the file open, but then I discovered that I can save the file if I close the file explorer first, which doesn't make sense. I get an Adobe Acrobat message stating, "The document could not be saved. The file may be…
How do I fix the "Selective Sync Conflict" issue, which is now present on three computers: new Mac mini, 2021 MacBook Pro and 2017 iMac? Two days ago, I installed dropbox on new Mac mini, with the intention of synching ALL files/folders on to mini hard drive. Yesterday, I noticed some files had downloaded green circle with…
i have been blocked from using my account for a week and support only answers one time per day (in the middle of the night in the US). Apparantely, they scrubbed my system (over 111,000 files) and found ONE LINK inside ONE .PDF (from 2022!) that they didn't like. And now they have blocked my account from usage for a week…
Hello everyone, I need to receive about 120 GB of files from a client via Dropbox. However, I suspect the client might only have a free Dropbox account—or maybe doesn’t have one at all. I know that using the “File Request” feature only allows uploads up to 2 GB per request. Could anyone advise the best way to receive such…
Hello, I work for a company that provides two-way radio programming software downloads for our end-user customer base. We have multiple links on our Dropbox but only one is giving us an error. The following is what we're receiving after re-uploading the software to Dropbox: Can't Share File Error in call to API function…
Dear Community I recongnized, every document i saved in the dropbox on my mac dous not sync. this started a few motnhs ago and I don not know why. The files are only available in the finder, but not in the web application or on my iphone app. I have a free dropbox plan
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