Sync

We work on a business version of dropbox and some of the members of the team are experiencing sync problems having many files uploading for days making information not available on cloud. We have decent internet connection (100 MB/s) and can't identify the reason why this happens. Any help will be welcome. Thanks

I have my main computer running windows10 hosting a lot of files (let's call him gustavo), in the beginning it costed me 3 days to make the full index but I need al these files on this pc (615029 files) The syncing finished after 3 days and since then everything was ok... Untill I booted some other computer containing new…

Ever since turning on Dropbox Smart Sync, Spotlight has been going nuts and using tons of CPU. The helper app "mdworker" is constantly crashing. Will report back after Dropbox finishes indexing all the Smart Sync files. PS. Funny you can't link Dropbox photos to the image uploader in this forum.

So now that Dropbox has decided to ****** the way we use symlinks in dropbox, " title=":sob: " /> I am left wondering how to sync my "Documents folder. I am willing to move the folder into Dropbox, however, it seems that isn't possible as I can only copy it over and am left with two copies as I can't delete the original…

I'm using Dropbox on an Arch Linux System. Everything worked fine for months now, until today. When running Dropbox from command line, it prints the error message: Unable to monitor entire Dropbox folder hierarchy. Please run "echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p" and…

Hi, I'd like to manage drop box Bandwidth usage. Any solutions? Its currently gobbling up lots of bandwidth which maxes out my current capacity Best 

Why are files prefixed with ._(then file name) showing in all my folders? Is this a mistake?

Hi, I don't mind dropbox taking a long time in the morning syncing all my files, but there are a couple files of less than a MB each that I'd like it to sync first. They are in the Apps folder. Is there a way to tell dropbox to sync these first, maybe by putting them into a special "sync first"folder? thanks

I do not want Dropbox uploading all of my photo, any for that matter. I got a new phone and it uploaded all my photo. I was so upset. How can I turn that off. I have a specific use for dropbox as a student and it's not for photos.

Hello everyone, My Dropbox Plus will expire on 5th Oct and I'm planning not to renew it. My current storage is ~ 200GB out of 1TB and I'm wondering where these 200GB will go after the plan expires. Do I need to download everything to my laptop? Thank you for your help. Hạnh

I have been following various "slow sync" threads, given that I am in the middle of a four-day sync of just six files. This is the first time in nearly five years that DropBox has grinded to a halt like this, and the various threads speak of checking for weird filenames and other perfectly reasonable approaches to take.…

i cant create new folders beacuse the option is not there any more on the website... i use a macbook pro does anyone knows whats going on???

I run a website for an organization, leveraging DropBox (Windows 10) for a monthly news video source. There is a media team that updates the one video file (news.mp4) monthly, that has a shared link reference with its code embedded into a html-video tag on a website. I have only found one way to maintain an existing link,…

I received a notice to do an update to dropbox. It says the installer cannot connect to the internet but internet access is fine and working for everything except this update installer.

Video files ( possibly photos too ) get renamed on automatic upload from the phone to Dropbox. There must be a really good reason for Dropbox to rename files and I'd like to hear it. It's very annoying because the file names are perfectly fine the way they are and so I can keep track easier for missing files, innterrupted…

hello. First post. Yesterday strange things started happening to files in Dropbox. This is a work Dropbox. This started when I was editing some word files. Some files opened fine, but others would not open at all when accessed through Dropbox either online or through windows explorer. These files had originally been put in…

My files show a cloud and I can't access them or get them to download to get the green check. I thought if I clicked on the cloud that I could get them to synch but nothing. Any ideas how I can download the files and folders that have become online only? Thanks in advance for your help!

When I plug into my iPhone X with my computer (Windows 10) dropbox pops up a message ''Device is locked'' I tried all the ways that I read here in Dropbox support but nothing works . I choosed ''I trust '' to my phone , I reinstalled dropbox in my computer, I opened the photos when I pluged the device and I changed the…

Hello, I am having an issue concerning dropbox syncing when using symbolic links. Using Windows 10 and the Dropbox app, recently downloaded / installed so I believe it is fully up to date. On the "host" machine, rather than copying (and thus duplicating) all files to the Dropbox folder, I create a symbolic link in the…

The box icon on system tray stays at gray and says "Starting...". But, when files are changed on another computer, they are being synced. Should I be concerned? Is there a fix? Thanks.

Operating system Windows 10: What I want is Dropbox to sync to "X:\" But if i change the folder it always automatically extends the folder name to "X:\Dropbox". Changing all appearances of that in the registry only breaks the installation. So is that somehow possible?

Due to a bug in the dropboxforum.com site :see_no_evil:, this solution has been re-posted here: How to make Dropbox ignore node_modules folder with symbolic links (aliases) :sunglasses:

I had to uninstall and reinstall dropbox on my work laptop due to some syncing issues. At the end of the reinstall process I got a message saying "There's already a folder named Dropbox(Company Name). Dropbox will rename your existing folder named Dropbox (Company Name) to finish installing" I got the option to "Choose…

Hello ! Since a week I've got issue with sync files. I've got a red cross on some files, impossible to have them sync on my other computer. I've got enough room on Dropbox, files are very small (text). I don't understand what appened, was working since years ! Some files are working, some others not. Any cue ?

Hi, I'm sure this has been covered, but I feel I need to ask the question myself for added clarity. I was confused about the difference between online only and local only, but if one could humour me to make sure I've now understood correctly, that would be appreciated. Local: This means the files are "stored" locally on…

I cannot copy files from my computer desktop to Dropbox; get message that administrator privileges are needed. However, I am administrator of my computer and my Dropbox. See attachment

The dropbox menu bar app has stopped showing the time left in the current sync in the bottom of the window. It shows a seemingly irrelevant progress bar but even hovering over that does not tell me the time left to sync, which I have depended on to let clients know when files will be there. Hovering over only gives me the…

I am trying to clear some space on my phone so I have been uploading photos onto dropbox. I had no problems at first, but all of a sudden I can only upload 1 photo successfully, if I try to upload more than one it'll upload one and all the other photos will fail to upload. It says upload failed and dropbox doesn't have the…