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How can I remove the word "(Personal)" in the name of my Dropbox folder?
I recently added a Dropbox Business account to my Mac and so Dropbox prompted me to add "(Personal)" in the name to signify which account it was. However, after disconnected the Dropbox Business account, my personal Dropbox folder is still named "Dropbox (Personal)". When I try to rename the folder to just "Dropbox," the…
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“You must have a Dropbox for Business account to access that page”
I have a personal payed account. Someone shared files with me with a dropbox link that starts with https://www.dropbox.com/work/. Upon clicking, I am taken to a page that states “You must have a Dropbox for Business account to access that page”. What kind of link did that person that requires me to have a work account? Is…
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How can I delete my Dropbox folder on one device, without affecting the files on the other?
n another computer? I have two computers with that share the same dropbox file. I am getting rid of the older computer and want to delete dropbox and the files in it. However, I still want the files in the dropbox folder on newer computer. How can I do this without deleting all dropbox files on newer computer?
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Can I use a different hotkey for taking a screenshot that will be uploaded to Dropbox?
Until recently I was able to decide I want to upload my screenshot or not simply by pressing CTRL while pressing PRINT on my keyboard or not. I think it was the last update, now, when I press only PRINT it uploads my screenshot, too. I don't want that. Can I change it back?
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How can I remove the Dropbox shell extension?
How do I remove the DB shell extension? I can't find any such setting to do so.
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Can Dropbox support roaming profiles?
Everytime I post a request for Dropbox to start supporting Roaming Profiles on Windows 7/8 the message seems to get removed by a moderator. But when I search, there are alot of users asking for this. I would urge Dropbox to consider supporting roaming profiles as other solutions already are. And it is only a matter of time…
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Allow Dropbox to run regardless if a user is logged in.
Ok I am a newbie here with DropBox I did not set up DropBox with this company someone else did. Company has a DropBox account, files are synced to the file server in the office. End Users have a drive mapping on their desktops/laptops. The issue is that the end users who have laptops are out in the field and need to have…
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Intolerable slow speed moving files
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/202007985-CPU-usage-making-version-3-intolerable?input_string=Intolerable Basically have the same issue. Very frustrated. I tried to move/delete a single picture from camera upload folder to another folder to organize my pictures, but every time I have to wait about 10…
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How to delete Dropbox from one Windows account
I have two different Windows “accounts” that I can log onto my computer under. (Only one is supposed to have all my data folders, etc..) Don’t ask me why or how, but when I was setting up Dropbox I had some trouble and ended up setting it up under both accounts. I just figured out that when I’m logged onto my…
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Trying to upload very large files (300GB) via the desktop app.
uploading very large files I have tried to upload a 300GB file to dropbox (I have 1TB capacity) using the Mac desktop application and I am being informed that there isn't enough free space. I bought this extra memory as dropbox write:"Files uploaded to Dropbox via the desktop application or mobile apps have no file size…
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How can I make sure the little green check marks are showing on my files?
Running Dropbox 3.0.3 on Mac Yosemite. How can I turn on the little green checkmarks that show all my files are up to date? (The dropbox icon in my tray tells me "Up to date" but I want my desktop folder to confirm it for each of the subfolders) Thanks for any leads on this.
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I am having an issue opening my mp4 files. Can you help me?
I shared a mp4 video from mac to dropbox but the file cannot be opened by a MS OS device. Realplayer is the default so it should work for any OS device. Is there something special I need to do when I upload the file to dropbox or before I share the link from dropbox? Thank you
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How can I change the location of my Dropbox folder on Linux?
Hello. I've had installed Arch Linux and put my Dropbox folder to the other partition had been mounted as USB device (e.g. to the /media folder). Recently I changed the way of mounting my partition with Dropbox folder: I add my partition to fstab file and immedeatly changed mount point. So at the moment Dropbox doesn't…
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I see duplicate files and folders starting with "._". What can I do?
For some reasons, I have a folder and file dupplication. Every single folder starts with ._Folder Name or ._File Name and then all the folders or files available to open appears at the complete end. How can I remove that?
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The Dropbox app says I don't have enough disk space and is not syncing my files
Hi, My Dropbox is often unwilling to sync folders to my hard drive. Apparently it thinks that my hard drive is full, which is not the case. I have over 600 mb of free space on my hard drive and the files to be synced are maybe 10 mb max in total... I have had my files being synced before with much less hard drive space…
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My Dropbox app won't launch at startup, unless it has admin rights on Windows 7.
Windows 7 64bit For some reason dropbox doesn't start with startup anymore because it needs administrator rights to start. If I try running the app normally without administrator rights, nothing happens, I see the cursor change to waiting for a few secs and then nothing. But if I right click and "run as administrator" it…