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Dropbox has created a copy of my main work folder and named it "… conflicted copy". No mention of what machine caused the conflict, and no indication of the conflicting file(s). The work folder is 4.67GB and 7,749 items. The copy is 971 kB and 1,303 items. On requesting help to identify the conflicting files, support told…

Summary "Unlink this Dropbox" / sign-out in the desktop client does not revoke the corresponding cloud-side device session. Each subsequent re-link creates a new entry in dropbox.com/account/security while previous ones remain. With N phantom sessions, the cloud fans out change notifications and content fetches N× to the…

am experiencing an issue when copying files from my Dropbox folder to WhatsApp Desktop on my Mac. Normally, when I copy and paste a file, the original file should remain in the Dropbox folder. However, in my case, the file is being completely removed from Dropbox after I copy or drag it into WhatsApp. It behaves like a…

I have a large file in my dropbox which I have been trying to sync to a new mac desktop. If I uninstall and reinstall the dropbox application, and then ask it to sync it would start downloading. But once the sync gets interrupted, by the mac going to sleep or anything else, it refuses to continue. In apple finder, the file…

I lost some files… I created a ticket… I was told my account could be "rolled-back" to a certain time/date so my files could be recovered…. It got sent up to the "Recovery Team". The recovery team didn't do ANYTHING I actually asked for. They tried something totally different, and it didn't work. They sent me a message at…

Right now it's a huge flaw you cannot cancel the 'make available offline' download mid-process. Especially since it's so easy to accidentally click the 'cloud' icons on MacOS and suddenly have a whole folder of files downloading. I work in post-production and regularly have folders containing hundreds of gigabytes worth of…

I have just set up a new Windows laptop. My identity is not the same email address as my Dropbox account. I need to know how to set up Dropbox in my correct email. My Dropbox folder in File Manager shows no files because it’s the wrong email address. please help!

Longtime user, first time caller. I got a new computer a couple of weeks ago and I've noticed when I try to save audio files (I'm a radio producer) it gives me error messages if Dropbox is syncing the previous file I saved. This was never an issue before (and still isn't) on my old computer. I'm used to rapidly cutting and…

Hi, recently Dropbox has started cramming my Explorer context menu with all of these options I mostly don't plan to use: Come on. Do you think it's ok to just dump all your stuff in there? If every app on my PC would do the same, would I have to manage dozens of entries on that menu? This is terrible UI design, it's bloat,…

Hi everyone, I’m facing a persistent issue with my Dropbox desktop client on Windows. The app is stuck at "Indexing 749 files" and has not made any progress for over 36 hours. I have already tried a series of deep troubleshooting steps guided by Gemini (AI), but nothing seems to resolve the hang. Here is a list of what I…

Sorry guys, this one is a bit long, but my dropbox is now totally unusable on my production computer, and I don't know how to fix. I'm on a mac mini 2023 under sonoma 14.5 , dropbox latest version downloaded today. STATE BEFORE PROBLEM : Dropbox installed on this mac mini in 2023, dropbox sync works very well between 4…

Device Mac Mini M4 Operating System/Browser (if using the web) MacOS 26.4 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) Syncing Status Very slow! Question or Issue I am have very slow upload speeds. It is taking 50 minutes to upload a 2.2 gig file. My upload speed is 490. I thought it was my computer, so I purchased a new one.…

Dropbox desktop client shows "Syncing 2 files, 110.00 B" that never completes. What I've verified: Three UUID-named files appear in my web "Last 30 Days" view but return zero results when I search for them on…

A lot of people own a personal NAS. A lot of people use Dropbox. So... A lot of people use Boxifier too. It would be great if Dropbox will integrate Boxifier features natively. That could even be a payable feature with a little add-on to "lower" plans and directly included in "upper" plans. No more pain about brokening of…

Hi, I recently downloaded a music production plugin on my MacBook M1 Pro, and the ‘/Library/Application Support/Synapse Audio’ folder (which contains the plugin's presets) isn't syncing with Dropbox. First of all, I don't understand why I need to sync files in the Library folder, since the backup I have set up on my Mac…

Has anyone else run into issues where Dropbox creates multiple “conflicted copy” versions of the same file — even when you’re the only one editing? I love Dropbox for sharing and backups, but the sync conflict problem has been a headache lately, especially with large folders or shared projects. How are you all handling it?…

I’d like to submit a suggestion to Dropbox. It would be very helpful if Dropbox could support a feature that prevents two users from simultaneously editing the same document, especially CAD files used in architecture, landscape design, and engineering workflows. Ideally, the system could either show a clear warning or…

I have a 2021 MacBook Pro and I use the Dropbox app to automatically upload every document I work on to Dropbox. Two days ago, I updated my OS to Tahoe 26.4.1. The update seemed to work fine, and I continued working on a Word document I had been editing for the next two days. I always save after every line I write, and…

Hi, My Dropbox sync is stuck forever, no idea why. See attached screens.

Operating System macOS11.7.10 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 244.4.6580 Syncing Status 1 file is unable to sync Issue While organising and renaming files in Finder, I accidentally typed the \ character in one of the file names. I corrected it almost immediately, but not before Dropbox had registered it as a file…

Application Affected Dropbox Mac: Device MiniMacM4, 2024 Operating System/Browser (if using the web) MacOS 26.3.4 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 244.4.6580 Question or Issue I’ve had the same “Updating 42 files” on my monitor tab icon for over a year. after syncing new addition, it reverts to this notice. There is…

Hello! I'm working with some colleagues and I realized I was using a separate folder (same name), so I moved all of my files over to the correct Dropbox folder everyone else was working on. Now some very important files are missing. These files did not exist on my version that I copied over (so they weren't overwritten),…

Files in the Dropbox Folder in my Finder sidebar do not appear in the Cloud Storage Folder and thus are not syncing. I've reinstalled the Dropbox app, relaunched multiple times, tried to drag files to an alieas, all without success. Using MacOS 26.2 on a new Mac Mini.

I know there is an older (2019) post about this, but the time left to sync seems to have disappeared again. any idea why this has disappeared again. Now when I hover over the icon, it just shows 'updating' and no info about time left. As the 2019 messages indicated, this was helpful and it would be great to have it back.

It'd be great to edit version numbers/strings so the dropdown contains custom text. In many naming conventions, versions aren't always whole numbers, and aren't always sequential. If version 3 was just internal and never uploaded, for example, it'd be lovely to have the version numbers sync up with external filenames in…

Device iMac 2021 Operating System/Browser (if using the web) MAC OS 15.7.4 Dropbox App Version/Browser Version APP version, cannot locate version # Question or Issue After a recent update I got error messages about the Finder and Dropbox started defaulting to saving my documents in the Dropbox cache, ".dropbox" (which I…

The ability to backup your entire Dropbox to an external drive while using selective sync on your computer, to allow a local backup even when the computer has insufficient hard drive space.

Dropbox Plan Plus Device Apple M1 pro Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Sequoia 15.7.3 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 244.4.6580 Question or Issue I have set my preferences within dropbox to "Online only" for file location moving forward. Im trying to upload a folder (about 800 gb in size) and it's saying…