-
Dropbox App kills whole Internet / Router when uploading/sync.
Hi Totally strange behaviour here. So yesterday ive uploaded a 5gb zip to my dropbox , Halfway the lan connection steps out. Since then everytime i start the dropbox app and it begins to sync , all my lan ports become unavailable until i reboot and prevent dropbox from autostart. Wlan still works. Ive tried a different…
-
Dropbox application not installing on MacOS Ventura
Hi I recently installed the new Mac OS Ventura on my Macbook pro. As soon as it was all set up, I was told I had to delete my dropbox app because it is corrupt. I, therefore, deleted it, went to the dropbox site, and downloaded what I assumed was the latest app version. I went to install it and it refuses to…
-
Desktop not in default location
Recently merged filed from old computer to new computer. Downloaded DropBox to new computer and when attempting to setup automatic backup for new device, the following error message is received...
-
Updating #### files , 5000+ files
I bought 2TB dropbox a few week ago. After syncing it still says Updating 5,### files. What is it doing? will it ever be done updating files? everything seems to be backed up and synced. ive set many files to online-only to save space. no other folders seem to have complaints about not uploading. it doesnt say there are…
-
"can't be opened because the original item can't be found" problem
Ugh. I don't know what happened. Drop box was asking me something and I must have clicked agreed to something and now all my files and folders "can't be opened because the original item can't be found" and I'm freaking out. I followed an early thread about disabling the backups…
-
How can I stream a video to my website from Dropbox online?
Hi Guys, So I will try and explain best I can. This is my website https://www.progressivedreamsmusic.com/ and this is a page on my website where I stream videos https://www.progressivedreamsmusic.com/a-progressive-journey-50/ The video that plays on the above page is hosted on my desktop in my dropbox ****** folder. I use…
-
How to embed a video from your Dropbox account on a website
Is it possible to embed a video that has been uploaded to Dropbox on to a website? I would like to embed the video so people can logon to my site and view the videos.
-
Indexing... (forever)
Hello! I moved some video footage to my Dropbox last night, and it's still indexing this morning. Meanwhile, it's eating up my CPU, my RAM, and it says it's locked up 100% of my disk (when I check task manager). I checked, and none of the files have inappropriate characters (colon, slash, etc). The only thing I can think…
-
How Do I Stop the "Online-Only Files" Deletion Warning?
Nearly every time I delete a folder (which is often), I get a popup asking for confirmation. "This folder will be deleted from your DropBox account. Because it has online-only files, it won't be moved to your Recycle Bin, but recently deleted files can be restored on dropbox.com." I never want to see this dialog again. How…
-
New Dropbox causes Apple Silicon MacOS to boot loop (kernel panic) with CrowdStrike
My Dropbox just upgraded to the latest version after several days of insisting that it should upgrade. After the upgrade completed it started indexing and after about 10 minutes the computer had a kernel panic and restarted. After that, the machine reboots every time about 60 seconds after I login. Only fix is to delete…
-
Folder called 'My files in dropbox'
I have a new laptop and just installed dropbox app on it. It seems to have taken it upon itself (or I have unwillingly ticked something) to backup most of my documents to dropbox. I only have free personal use so my dropbox is now full and not fully synchronised. I now have a shortcut called "my files in dropbox" where my…
-
download from cloud to external drive
Questions like this have been asked before, but I haven't found an answer yet. My apologies if I missed something. I am going to Antarctica for a year, and my access to the internet will not be guaranteed. I wish, therefore, to create a local back-up of the data I have stored in Dropbox. I know that I could, in theory,…
-
Documents, Dowloads, Desktop, and Music folders on Mac
Recently, I downloaded Dropbox basic 2GB to try it out on my iMac, but then I decided to delete it. I deleted the app from my mac as well as from the trash folders on my mac. I realized like many, my Desktop, Documents, Downloads, and Music folder were "missing" (could not click on them and had files were gone). They names…
-
'Show changes' in excel is not visible
Hello when i open a shared excel file with open in exccel web , the button that called ( show changes ) is not visible even when the file is shared and my teammates typing in it on the same time is there any solution to make it visible ? thanks in advance
-
The following files are not supported by Dropbox and cannot be uploaded: .DS_Store, .DS_Store, .DS_S
Unable to upload files from computer to dropbox and keep getting message: The following files are not supported by Dropbox and cannot be uploaded: .DS_Store, .DS_Store, .DS_Store and 12 more
-
icon styles in system tray
I have Windows 7 x64 SP1 on a Sandy Bridge Core i5. Dropbox is visible only on my User Account, not on Admin. I use the "Classic" desktop so I can customise to my preferences rather than Microsoft's. The taskbar is a very pale blue/grey colour. Some time ago, after an update, the tray icon became "invisible", a white box…
-
Submenus on Dropbox application are not working under KDE/Linux.
Hello, I'm having a problem with submenus on the Dropbox application's submenus on KDE based systems. I personally use two Debian bookworm installations. One is running XFCE4, and the other is running KDE as their desktop applications. When I right click to the Dropbox application's tray icon, the menu opens as usual. On…
-
Permissions for new files omit group write permission
Using the Dropbox Sync app on a Linux machine Newly created files lack the "Write" bit and this makes the shared folder inaccessible for other users on the network. Already checked the `umask` and it is correctly set to 0007 for the user, and also for the process when queried using `gdb` Running `strace` on the file writer…
-
Can't open PDF files with new beta on my mac
Issue is that the file info says open with Dropbox, not Adobe. If I change back to Adobe then it opens. (Or if I open it from inside Adobe.) But I have hundreds of PDFs that now have the wrong app to open them. Wouldn't be a problem if they opened using Dropbox, but they don't. I can change open with info on each file, but…
-
Dropbox app stuck syncing after Mac update
After following the process to enable the "new" dropbox, files (709.4 MB) seem to have been moved as expected to ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox. However, after updating one of the files...Dropbox continues to continuously declare it to be "syncing!" No sync errors stated. Quitting the app and restarting did nothing to…
-
Trouble uploading
Windows 11 user. When I drag and drop a folder or file onto the Dropbox folder in Windows Explorer, the upload fails saying I need permission. I've tried Windows copy and move, and TeraCopy and TeraMove. I have my client's primary Dropbox login. I have full control permissions on my own PC. I can create files in Word and…
-
Cannot "Allow" extension in Mac Preferences
I cannot turn on Smart sync because the "allow" prompt does not ever show up in my mac preferences. I click open preferences, and the preferences window pops up, but there are no blocked extensions/pop ups for me to click "allow". I have reinstalled several times with no changes.
-
Error message when trying to open Google Docs created in Dropbox
Good afternoon! Many members of our team have recently started getting 404 error messages when we try and open documents in Dropbox desktop. We have started using Google docs and we weren't sure if that was affecting anything but the documents we are trying to open exist in the files so we aren't sure why it's happening.…
-
Beta Build 169.3.5651
Thanks for using Dropbox! The desktop client is regularly updated with many fixes including the following: Fixes in this update: * Fixed an issue that caused tray banner notifications to persist when switching accounts. * Fixed a bug that caused occasional freezing while re-installing or uninstalling Dropbox on Windows. *…
-
New macOS app – bumpy ride. Script/access issues, indexing…
I have to say that the “new” Dropbox (167.4.419 as of now) app for macOS has been a bumpy ride, and that’s putting it mildly. I have been a happy paying customer for more than five years, but for the first time, I consider cancelling my subscription and using alternatives. This major update came out of the blue, telling me…
-
14TB to back-up. Most efficient way to do this?
I'm going to give as many details as I can here so that I can receive the appropriate answers. I've contacted the help line and didn't get very far while receiving conflicting answers. I have 14TB on a NAS (hooked up to my home PC) that I want to back up to dropbox. I still want to retain everything on my NAS as well, this…
-
Dropbox App on Mac stopped working - no error message or activity
I have been using Dropbox on Mac for many years, but I just noticed that it stopped syncing about one week ago. The Dropbox icon doesn't appear on the top menu bar. When I try to click on the Dropbox app icon in the Applications finder folder to launch the app, it flashes for a second and then nothing happens. I looked in…
-
Excel Pinned Files on Taskbar - Doesn't show DropBox files
Hi there, I've had this problem before and can't remember how I fixed it. Basically there is a weird bug where spreadsheets stored in DropBox don't show up in the recent files when you right click the Excel icon in the Windows taskbar. It's something to do with cloud files I think but there is a way you can get around it.…
-
Dropbox installer downloading too slowly
For few days, dropbox was too slow in syncing files, so I thought of reinstalling my dropbox app on the desktop. I have 500MB download bandwidth and windows OS. I uninstalled by going to Apps and ..., selecting uninstall. Now, I installed DropboxInstaller.exe and try to Open, allow it to change my hard-drive. But then, it…
-
What happens to an online-only file after I access it?
I have several large files set as online-only. As I understand it, that means that although the files appear to be on my hard drive, they are only stored on Dropbox, and if I attempt to open one of these files, it will be downloaded from Dropbox onto my hard drive so I can work with it. My question is, after I open a file…