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Hi everyone! Theresa here, you may have seen me or I may have written within your thread before. I always love seeing the different ways people make Dropbox work for them, so I wanted to open this up to you all… how does Dropbox fit into your day-to-day workflow? Are you using syncing to keep everything up to date across…
Your Dropbox Basic account makes it easy to organise files, manage folder and keep your digital life running smoothly. You’ve probably heard us mention it once or twice …and for good reason. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to get the most from Dropbox Basic and share simple solutions to some of the most common…
Maybe it’s all those photos from your last trip you don’t have the heart to delete. Or a project that’s grown way bigger than you expected. Or…hundreds of videos of your pet doing the same adorable thing (no judgment, I have thousands). Whatever’s filling up your Dropbox, hitting your storage limit is an issue. Don’t…
Hi everyone — I'm Andrey from the engineering team. I wanted to share a tool some of you might find handy: dbxcli, a command-line app for working with your Dropbox without opening the web UI. We recently shipped updates with JSON output support, streaming uploads, and improved CI/automation readiness — so it felt like a…
Hey all, I've been beating my head against the wall for a week now trying to figure out why my Dropbox Finder extension wasn't working. I don't have File Provider and really didn't want to set it up, plus I'm apparently not a candidate. I'm not sure exactly what caused this state. It was either a recent update or some…
I was searching for how best to upload very large files (particularly without having to store them on the Dropbox main folder). I found this answer, which indicates that there's no way to do it without storing in the Dropbox folder. However, I also subsequently found that was incorrect. It appears to be possible to use the…
Hi everyone I’ve been reorganizing a large number of gaming-related files, screenshots, setup notes, and performance-testing folders recently, and I was curious how others here manage everything efficiently with Dropbox. Do you prefer keeping everything in broad folders, or using more detailed category/subfolder structures…
I've noticed my Dropbox storage getting hammered lately by dozens of 4K screen recordings that are only meant for quick internal tutorials. Most of these videos are 5 minutes long just to explain a 30-second process, and nobody actually watches them until the end. I’ve started using Supademo as an alternative because,…
Hey there, and welcome to the Dropbox Community. I’m Theresa, a Community Manager, and I’m here to help you get involved, get answers, and have fun while you're at it. This space isn’t just about asking questions (though we love those), it’s about people helping people. Whether you’re a Dropbox pro or just getting started,…
Hi. So we use various software that relys on linked external files to be loaded in from other drives - think video editting loading footage, or a CAD software loading in other cad files as an assembly, for example we might reference files from a specific folder on F:\ drive, as well as W:\ drive. And we're working on a d:\…
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