Sync

Hello, I just purchased a new MacBook Pro which will be used for both MacOS and Windows 10 via Bootcamp. I have limited SSD space, so I wanted to try to make them share a Dropbox folder. My plan is to create three partitions - One with HFS (or whatever the MacOS file system is called), one with NTFS for Windows 10 and a…

Why does it take so long to start up dropbox? While it's starting up, other programs are very slow, almost unresponsive. It takes over 20 minutes to show starting/syncing completed. I have 16gb ram, window 7. The start up speed is critical during such time as trying to use the computer to print items for meeting and it…

I am trying to figure out an easy way to save my Microsoft Outlook emails and folders to Dropbox. Is there an easy way to do it?

I am having ongoing issues trying to get my Dropbox files to sync with my desktop. I am probably a few months behind on files on my desktop as this computer had to be taken to IT for some repairs. I left it running for more than 24 hours and it's just not working right. I have followed all of the troubleshooting guides…

DropBox is no longer syncing on my MacBook Pro. It has been showing "syncing 1,218 files" for at least a week. I turned off my McAfee firewall, but no change. DropBox also is using a lot of file space and the fan is blowing loudly. Activity Monitor shows it is using 107% of the CPU. If I turn off DropBox, the fan stops…

I am looking at my drop box through my browser, everything is there and up to date. I'm also looking at my drop box on my computer, it says everything is there, no syncing icons, just a big bag of green ticks. but one does not equal the other. whats on my computer isn't whats in my drop box. I am missing folders and files.…

I have dropbox on my home and travel/work computer. This week, while traveling, I did a LOT of work on a word doc. I practice "save early/Save often", so I frequently save after each page, major edit, graphic item insertion, etc.. sometimes, I save every 5 minutes, sometimes it every 20, but I save after every major edit.…

Hi, I have an external drive connected to my router which appears in the network as \10.50.1.1\Name How do I sync my dropbox file to a location there? when I try to move the directory over there, I get a message that this is a network drive. Thanks, Tommy

I have used dropbox for years, I believe a new version was just installed and now I can't upload files. A simple video clip 848MB. It comes up Error and lost connection. I have internet connection so it is not that. I restarted computer but still does not work. I deleted old dropbox files, and still no go. If I use the…

Hi I have a Dropbox account with 1TB of space but the problem is I can't use it all as keep getting error message on my Mac saying not enough space? I am only using 1GB at the moment, the problem is my local harddrive is not big enough so I can't use the desktop folder listed under my computer and I originally got a…

For security reasons I've temporarily unlinked my computer from dropbox. Now I want to relink it but my computer is not shown in the list of devices in the security section of my dropbox account. So my files are not synced. Do I have to delete dropbox and install it all over again? Or is there a way to link my computer?

Is there a setting that allows me to keep certain files on dropbox but not stored on all my devices? thanks! Michael

I had this problem for over a week now. I tried the things I have read from here - turning off firewall and antivirus (though I didn't have an anti-virus yet because I just recently reformatted my pc) - uninstalling and reinstalling - no proxies used I also had experienced it long before this but it was fixed with…

I inherited ownership of a shared spreadsheet from a retiring colleague. I moved the 'original' spreadsheet to my own (local) Dropbox folder on my machine. I have subsequently edited the spreadsheet to include additional formulas and computations. Specifically, I have add the following formula in several…

Here's the message that I get: Couldn't start Dropbox. This is usually because of permission error. Storing your home folder on a network share can also cause an error.

I am having an issue. I want to put all my files from my laptop into the dropbox as backup. I would then be able to delete some of those files on my laptop because it is full. The problem I keep having is I can only upload files and I need to upload whole folders. When I try to copy and paste them into the dropbox on my…

I like to use drop box as my back up, but the idea of having my files synced does not work for me. is there a way to turn syncing off perminantly without having to unlink myself? I dont want to unlink becuase I wont be able to down load large amounts of files. However syncing files just does not work for me. thanks! 

OS: macOS Sierra 10.12 I am unable to use selective sync. I open Dropbox Preferences > Account and click on Change Settings for Selective Sync. Dropbox opens a window and it says "Loading more folders..." And it just stays there forever. It will not bring up my Dropbox folders to check or uncheck for syncing. 

Our dropbox constantly keeps copying every file, with a copy with this in the end of file name: com.dropbox.attributes”. When we run a bad file check, it list all these attributes file, how do we prevent this?

One of our computers got infected by ransomware and it encrypted a lot of dropbox files on that machine which were then updated to the entire dropbox. I know how to manually find the old version of each file but it's taking a long time to do them one at a time. Is there a restore point option to go back to how all the…

Hi, I know how to work with files on my Samsung pad and I hav found the menys to sync files from Dropbox on line to my pad offline. But on my ordinary computer at home, I can't find the offline possibility in the meny to the left. There must be a possibility to work off line on my ordinary computer , must it not?