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Fall Photography Tips & Tricks
Fall, or autumn as we call it here in Ireland, is arguably the most photogenic season. Missing out on capturing its beauty would be a shame. Here’s how you can make the most of this vibrant time of year with some simple photography tips. Play with Colour in Your Composition The fall colour palette is so recognisable and it…
Dropbox Backup: Untouched large file keeps restarting upload
I have one large old file (200GB) among many small ones in a folder being uploaded to Dropbox Backup. However, the upload appears to be continually restarting, even though no software on the computer should be touching the file for any kind of write. I've left my computer running with updates disabled for three days…
"Don't Sync" option missing on Windows 11
It'd be nice if there was a way (it appears there used to be?) to exclude a folder/files from syncing on Dropbox. I realize I could just keep those files outside of the Dropbox folder, but this would be inconvenient for my own organization of files. At the link below it looks like there used to be a "Don't sync on Dropbox"…
Android devices not syncing with my PC
I have Dropbox set up on 3 devices, my Windows PC, an Android tablet and an Android mobile phone. The two android devices are no longer syncing with the main PC app. I have cleared cache via the Dropbox settings, logged out and on again, and deleted & downloaded the Dropbox again. Still no luck with syncing to the PC.…
Can't upload photos from Samsung phone to Dropbox
Why cant dropbox upload my photos from my Galaxy phone
Can we have the "Sync Next" option for folders too?
It will make my life so much easier if I could choose what folder should be sync first, or at least have the option to make a file sync next, I dont know why this option disappeared.. Im a photographer and I work with a lot of photos. every time Im editing the dropbox takes forever to upload my original unedited photos…
Dropbox is stuck at indexing ever since I installed the app on my new MacBook Pro.
I got a new MacBook Pro and installed Dropbox. It worked for a while but suddenly stopped working without me realizing. It seems to be stuck at "Indexing...". Now I have many files locally on the computer in my Dropbox folder that are not synced. I also tried to make a backup copy of the Dropbox folder's content but I get…
How can I only upload the photos from my phone and not my computer to Dropbox?
Hello All, I've noticed that (for awhile now) after I enabled the "Turn on camera uploads" on my iphone, whenever I had the iOS Dropbox App open, it not only uploaded all the photos in the iphone camera roll (which is what it is suppose to do), but I realized it also uploaded photos in my Mac, to be more specific, it is in…
Dropbox files not showing on Macbook Air but are visible on Android phone
Can anyone tell me what's going on? Is it a sync setting problem? I only have free level for Dropbox.
Why are my photos being duplicated in a different aspect ratio?
When transferring photos to Dropbox from the iPhone, it duplicates the photos, changing the 16:9 format to the 4:3 format. What is happening?
JPG images uploading from my iPhone 11 to Dropbox as PDFs
All of my JPG images in Dropbox on my laptop have converted to PDFs and are uploading as PDFs from my phone. On the Dropbox app on my phone the images are still JPGs. Can anyone tell me the setting to convert everything back and have my uploads remain in JPG format? Adobe won't even let me open the PDFS saying I have to…
Failure to upload several thousands of files through the website
I am trying to upload the contents of my website (which is no longer active on the web). I have successfully done this previously, but this time dropbox hangs up on me whether I use drag and drop or upload button. Fails both with Chrome and Brave. Could the magnitude of what I am attempting be the problem - about 13K…
High CPU usage additionally the web interface stops responding
I just started using Dropbox again. I'm trying to upload a large number of photos to my account. It feels in general to be a slow process, one where it's ****** to see progress. I'm getting very frustrated. Files stay in "Finalizing" (Many of them simultaneously) but don't seem to progress and then I have to re-initiate…
My PLN files lose all the information in it, apart from their filename, why?
Hello. I have problem for few months already. Some of our files get left only with name and lose all of information what it`s include. And interesting, that these files are only PLN files who act like this. There wasn`t any kind of action from our side, it just happen ion several folders. Shows, that files size is only…
Can I use an email forwarded for 'Email to Dropbox' feature for attachments?
I've enabled the email to dropbox feature and can receive emails to long email address supplied. I've tried setting up a shorter email on my custom domain to auto forward to the long address but it never seems to receive the attachments. Is there a limitation to this? I would rather share a shorter more memorable email…
Sending computer shows 165 GB of data but receiving computer shows 2.01 GB
Sending computer shows 165 GB of data but receiving computer shows 2.01 GB. How to get the receiving computer to get the complete file? I have changed to not show "read only" numerous times, but it keeps defaulting to "read only". Sending computer only has 256 RAM. Receiving computer has 1 T
Why were some of my folders moved into the Dropbox folder, leaving behind aliases, on Mac OS Sonoma?
Last night I experienced a weird and unsettling problem. All of a sudden, without any discernible reason, I lost permissions to access both my Desktop and Documents folders in MacOS Sonoma 14.6. Running Disk Utility and CleanMyMac to try to fix the problem did not work. I wound up calling Apple Support and got the problem…
I need to upload files with a specific folder structure
To All, I have a large amount of drone based image files, approximately 8K of them. Each image is roughly 9 to 12 mb in size. There is a directory structure that has to remain intact, which consist of 1 main directory and 5 second level folders that contain images. Each folder name has anywhere between 35 and 45 characters…
Sharing Folders with 'can edit' link but people still need to request access to upload
Hello - I created a Dropbox folder and set the sharing to anyone with the link can edit, but the folder is still making people with the link request access before they can upload anything to the folder. Is there a way to set it up so that anyone with the link can add files to the folder?
I installed the desktop app on my new computer, but my files aren't showing on my mobile app.
I got a new PC. I downloaded app for DropBox, the folder shows up in my File Explorer but the files do not show up in my iphone app without using the upload option in the app. On my old PC I was able to export a photo from Lightroom to dropbox file and it synced immediately with my phone. What am I missing or not doing?
Set date for new photos only in Camera Uploads
Hi, is there an option to set a new date starting that on my phone to be backed up? I wanna delete old photos from camera uploads, but dont want them to be syncronized once again. If i could re-set the starting that i could avoid that to be happened. Thanks
Restricting folder to certain file types? Is it possible?
Is there any way to set up a folder so that it can only accept certain filenames, and or reject other filenames? While my goals is actually by 'filetype', simply name matches/rejections would suffice the most common use case... Ie prevent .zip files from populating a folder, or allow only *.zip to be dumped to a given…
Can't understand the meaning of the Dropbox icon in the finder and it doesn't sync.
My system info HW: Apple M1 Pro OS: Ventura 13.5 (22G74) Dropbox ver: v180.3.4837 & joined beta Dropbox beta has an incomprehensible behavior when using the file provider feature on macOS. As shown in the finder screenshot below, I have set "Make available offline" except for a few folders. However, the cloud with arrow…
How do I permanently stop a huge sync, and remove all the added files?
I accidentally started an enormous sync to my iMac (10k + files urk) that I can't seem to stop. My only option appears to be to pause it. I don't want all this data to be sync'ed to my computer at all so how do I make this thing stop permanently? It's gobbling up bandwidth and my data and after a day of syncing, has still…
Upload error: file name too long
I'm trying to upload files but am randomly getting error message saying "the filename for file "x" is too long". It seems to be random, with some file names uploading fine that are actually longer than the ones being cited as a problem. Looking to see if anyone else has encountered this.
Dropbox for wechat. How to share my content there?
I found that my files in Dropbox can't share directly to wechat, Does anyone have solutions to slove that problem ?
Getting an error that I don't have enough free ****** drive space when trying to sync new files
I’m trying to transfer my files from an external ****** drive to my 3TB Dropbox plan. My sync settings are to be online only but when I attempt to add folders I get an error message saying I don’t have enough free space on my PC. Do you have to first use your HD space before making the files Online only? I hope not.
Can I link my old Dropbox folder again to my account after moving to a new device?
I am a DropBox Pro user since many years. Lightning destroyed my W7 PC where I had a partition 😧 with a folder named DropBox. The folder was replicated and syncronized with the DropBox cloud. Now I have a W10 PC without any partitions, only C:. My whole local DropBox folder content survived and is available here. I have…
I don't see the remaining upload time on macOS Sequoia.
I am a paid user. Using the latest version of dropbox on Mac OS Sequoia. I don't see "time remaining" anywhere ? It's really important when I am uploading ****** files or folders. Is this an issue only affecting me or have you removed this feature again ?

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