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Please help!!! I'm a professional writer and i've been working between my imac, macbook pro and ipad for years and everything syncs together perfectly until today. I went to open a file to work and it says zero bytes and not compatible. It does this on all my devices.

Hey everyone, I'm syncing over 2.4M files on my DBX Business account. Long story short, it's really unstable. On both Mac and Windows the desktop app resyncs _all_ files every week or so, and Smart Sync has caused thousands of random files to go to "Online-only" with no user input, causing a plethora of desktop issues for…

I have a Win10 machine where I save songs from vinyl and apply file attributes like Album, Artist, Title, etc (using mp3Tag v2.89a). These files will sync just fine to my other AWS Win10 machine, but about 60 out of 320 will not show any attributes that were present in the originals. Just the standard mp3 file name and…

if i was to turn my pc off then turn it back on will it continue uploading when back on and conected to wifi 

Dropbox Windows client 3.0.5, running on Windows 8.1 I have a dedicated partition / drive for Dropbox, and Windows created "System Volume Information" folder on its root directory. Dropbox client keeps saying: Indexing "System Volume Information"... Can't Sync "System Volume Information" (access denied) I tried to use…

Good Morning All, I keep a work folder on my computer that I make additions/changes to throughout the week. I want to start backing this folder up to my dropbox weekly but I don't want to have to go through and remember which files I actually changed. So my question is if I have a folder that I upload to Dropbox with the…

I have been wanting to use Quickbooks Desktop on multiple computers. I don't share it with anyone else but need access to it from a couple of different computers depending on my situation. I was having sync issues where there would be conflicted copies, etc. I know this is because the other computers that are syncing with…

Hi, I am trying to sync files and folders from Dropbox onto my Desktop on a Mac. I have checked for invalid special characters already. I don't think I have selective sync turned ON. (I'm not sure) And when I try to initiate another Sync, Dropbox tells me its up to date. Thanks, Klbc8042

Hey Forum, I know this is getting old, but I can't belive it has no solution. I have a VPS with 40GB hard drive. I'll need a DropBox account with an insane, size of some terrabytes. Now I want obviously reach these files from the VPS (CentOS 7 Linux without GUI) via a folder. So how can I mount the DropBox share like an…

I have two laptops, Windows 8.1 (my main device) and Windows 10 which I rarely use. 8.1 had to go into a repair shop so i set about setting up dropbox on W10 with dropbox. It had some old files on it from the last synch several months back. When i checked on the synch - and luckily for me it was very slow - i found that…

I have an excel sheet that pulls football scores from the web. The info only updates new scores if I open the excel sheet from the original computer I made sheet on. I want to be able to open my dropbox from another computer and have scores update.

after the recent windows 10 update I am having issues that require that I restore windows 10 to pre-upddate status. I did this once last year and it destroyed the sync between dropbox desktop and dropbox cloud. I still haven't fully recovered from that nightmare. I want to do it right this time. what should I do with…

How do I stop Dropbox from downloading all my files to every device? I have a pid account. I only want certain files downloaded on certain devices. Now every time upload video files to my iPad (which has plenty of storage left), and then go back to my Macbook Air, I automatically get all those files on it and then my hard…

Everything in my dropbox folder is set as online only for syncing. However I can no longer save a file to the drop box as it is saying my disc space is full. I thought online only with smart sync means nothing is stored on your computors hard drive. Where am I going wrong?

I have powerpoints in unshared, regular folders that are synced to Dropbox as I've always done before. But now when I open the files (without moving them at all), I get a message If you move this file to (the folder it currently resides in with everything else), it won't be available in Dropbox or on any devices." This is…

The folder I shared with myself does not show in Finder. I have an access only within the browser. I use two computers. I created a folder in Computer 1 and now I want to access to the folder from Computer 2. From Computer 1, I control-clicked the folder, selected "share," and emailed a sharing request to my email address.…

I have a TON of duplicate photos on my computer & dropbox. I delted some off my computer directly but when I sync with dropbox, dropbox put them all back on my laptop. I'm wondering if I have all my photos on my laptop, delete ALLLLLL the photos from dropbox (by logging into the cloud version), then cleanup my photos on my…

Hello all, I need some help with a syncing problem: I plan to dual-boot linux and windows 10 (which is currently my main OS) and was wonderring if I can install dropbox in linux and get it to sync the Dropbox folder that resides on a NTFS partition. The idea is not to have the same data twice (once on the NTFS partition…

Hello. In a synced dropbox (ver. 54.4.90) folder, the date of a file is different in its local version and in its server version. The files’ content is the same but the displayed dates are not: one is “10/19/2017 10:11 PM” and the other is “28/2/2012 6:16 pm”. Please see the attached screen prints. Why does it happens?…

I just uploaded a bunch of PDFs to a shared dropbox folder and instead of the green circle with checkmark to the right, they're accompanied by a red circle with an X. Does anyone know what this means?

In reponse to the question, can I have separate Dropbox folders on the same computer (one for me and one for my husband), I was told to go to the page dropbox.com/help/61 If you are not a business user, you are told: If you're a Dropbox Basic or Dropbox Pro user, it's also possible to use a different Dropbox account for…

Pls, I installed Dropbox on Ubuntu but it does not syncronize my file into drobox when I update them from another device! Thanks in advance

I'm having trouble with saving a few files to Dropbox. It's installed on my PC. I create the file and save it in my Dropbox file, as I have done for the last few years I've used Dropbox. When I open my files, the new Dropbox files are not appearing. My old files are still there, but the new ones I just saved are not there.…

I have both the "Camera Uploads" and "Photos Library.photoslibrary" on Dropbox. I want to take both of them off because I now have my photos on the Apple cloud. How can I take them both off and make sure I don't permantly delete any of my photos? Thank you, L

I was uploading photos to my Dropbox folder on my iMac and suddenly I could not upload any more. There was no warning. My Dropbox folder's size is 608 MB. Does anyone have any idea what may be wrong? Thanks!

I recently switched my storage folder from internal hard drive to my external drive. Since then, in every drive there's a duplicate under the extension of ._xxxx as well as "conflicted copy of xxxx". Can't delete files on the root folder which isn't nice and every new file gets duplicated. Solutions to delete…