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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…
I have a Plus account which I upgraded to be able to share my wedding photos with family and friends. When I sent the link to the folder to my father, he was immediately asked to pay £8 and set-up his own account. Plus he's now been bombarded with emails from Dropbox. Have I misunderstood what Dropbox can do? I don't want…
I'm doing some work for a company and would like to upload large files directly to their Dropbox folder. However, I have a free account, and the research I've done makes it sound like I can't join the folder because I don't have enough storage. Do I really have to purchase a subscription just to upload files to someone…
I am backing up an external drive on macos and it seems to be stuck updating a pdf that has a hash for the filename - probably a mail attachment deep in a mail directory. Unlike a couple of toher files, where VBackup has alerted me to illegal characters, there is no notificaiton. Aside from searching for that file and…
hi all. there are some files missing from the desktop app on mac os 15.5. they are on my dropbox app / account but not downloading to the mac. any ideas why? ive tried re-installing, full uninstall, signing out and back in etc etc - nothing working. any ideas?
That! Some of the files on my Desktop App aren't in my Dropbox app on my iPhone. Help please.
I received a request through Dropbox, to allow a complete stranger to access a file. ...a file I've never shared with anyone, and should only be visible to me. The file is a PNG and is something I named, which is less likely that someone could guess. Its not a complex named file, but too many coincidences. How is someone…
Just to add my experience, this happens all the time and is definitely not "solved" on MacOS 14.6.1 with Dropbox 226.3.4984.
How can I share a folder with an individual without them being added as a member to our organizations Dropbox account? I want to be able to share a folder without them being added to our team as we would then have to pay for eavh folder shared.
Hello, I'm experiencing an issue with my Dropbox account. I recently integrated Dropbox with Make (formerly Integromat) to automate the upload of invoice PDFs (from Zoho Invoices) into a Dropbox folder. The upload process worked fine, but in the following module to generate a shared link , I received this error: [409]…
Hi I have had dropbox on my computer for years now although I have not been using it for quite some time. I recently tried to share a new folder and got the message: "We’ve suspended your sharing activity because of a violation of Dropbox’s Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy, and Terms of Service or Services…
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