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The automatic upload function is set up in a way that the NEWESR (most recent) photos are always uploaded first. I take a lot of photos and there is always a gap. It would make more sense for the uploads to pick up from where you left them?! Meaning, from OLDEST photos, to the newest. Is it possible to change the order? If…

Hello all. I have copied all my iCloud Files & Folders, via Finder, to Dropbox. They DO show up in Finder-->Dropbox. They do NOT show up on the web. All other files show up instantly but none of those I just copied did. Does anyone know why the files aren't showing up on the website? And, how do I correct this? Thank you…

Good morning, We used to be able to scan a file and have it emailed directly into a DB folder. We are no longer able to do so, can anyone assist with setting this up?

My iPhone 10 which is totally up to date, often seems to stop responding when I'm uploading a video to dropbox. At the top is says "uploading" and tells how many files (sometimes only one) are remaining. But on the list below, the file is grayed out and the words "waiting to upload" remain. Seemingly forever. Very…

I'm curious if anyone else has noticed a strange occurrence when synching files to Dropbox from third party applications. My Accordance Bible softwre application integrates with Dropbox to backup and sync files (e.g., preferences). From time to time, when I log into Dropbox and check the Accordance files there, I discover…

I've gotten this error message a couple of times this morning. I'm pretty sure that I've uploaded *.txt files hundreds of times before. What's going on here?

Hi, Camera Uploads from an iphone (13 mini) works fine for most images and videos (.heic, .jpg, .png from phone screen shots or .mov) if I either connect the phone via usb to a mac (m1 pro monterey) or open the dropbox app on the iphone and tap photos. However, I rather often get a message that anything between 2-15 images…

On my Desktop I have a Dropbox folder created during Dropbox install. It contains a folder (Test) that I copied from my C: drive (C:/Test). The folder and the files in the folder have synced to my Dropbox storage. Now I added a new file to the C:/Test folder. Why does the new file in C:/Test not get automatically synced to…

I have received photos from a photographer however the files are too large to use on my website. When I try to upload them to my website it says files exceed 20 mega pixels. How can I compress the files to a usable size. i have put them into a zip folder and they are still too large 

I use iPad with latest iPadOS. I can not upload a folder. Neither in Dropbox app, files app, or in safari !? There is no option for that? Done it hundreds of times in windows, what’s am I missing?

I'm trying to upload my DCP folder which includes folders and files of about 84GB. I have plenty of space, but Dropbox says some of the files are not compatible and will be skipped. Has anyone experienced this and/or tried to upload a DCP or larger folder and files. Thank you! 

Hello I have a set of sound samples/patches which I want to keep in my Dropbox account. Total about 23GB when zipped. I have loads of free space in my Dropbox Plus 2TB account. I have added the files (via Windows drag and drop) to an area which is set to Online Only from a SmartSync perspective. (I do not use Selective…

I have now had this issue for a couple months. It happens on two accounts. I try to upload a file (plenty storage available) and it fails the upload or I get an internet issue popup. I am not having internet issues with either download or upload speed or other platforms. It gets to the finalizing stage and hangs up there.…

I have premium Dropbox and I am trying to upload the large MP4 file. It’s a six hour video, but only three hours are uploading. I can’t seem to find a workaround to fix this. The file is over 25gb but I have 2tb available. What’s going on that I can’t upload the entire file

Whenever I upload a video from my Pixel 4a, doesn't matter whether it is an automatic camera upload or a manual one, it's timestamp in a Dropobx photo gallery is always exactly 2 hours earlier than a correct timestamp. Can you fix it ? I hope Dropbox doesn't mess around with metadata of my files.

Please add the original photo date somewhere in the upload. I have loaded more than 400 pictures this week and just noticed the date is not there, I Have already deleted from my phone thinking this was a safe measure for me and it is not. 

Before today I was able to share a link directly to an Instagram user. Now I'm getting this link for editing and link for viewing and not able to share. How do I fix it?

Question: How can I make it so that when I take a screenshot it automatically saves to a folder in dropbox NOT my mac's desktop. I just got a new mac laptop and my screenshots are saving to the desktop. But on my old mac laptop every screenshot was saved to a folder inside of Dropbox, which is what I want to do on my new…

I am a photographer and have 10,000's of photos I want to back up to Dropbox. I have created files and folders and want to upload a large folder, with multiple sub folders, at once. If I start the upload it suddenly will just upload a 'few' of the subfolders and stop, yet say upload was complete. To try and upload each…

I have been uploading pictures and videos from the website for weeks with no problem. However, I checked the status of my recent upload and it has not moved in 12 hours. I have 3.5% used of 1026GB and Dropbox is up to date. These files are not syncing to my computer as I'm trying to back everything to get rid of this iMac.…

Hello! Is Dropbox changing my filenames upon uploading them? I've been uploading some audio files through the service for a couple weeks, and every time I receive the confirmation email to show my uploads it seems to have lost an underscore from my filename. Example below: My file on my computer: Project…

I'm looking to create one upload link that I can use to share with my clients and embed into my website. But, they cant have access to the file so they can see other client files. They should only be able to upload, not view the files in the file. They also need to be able to upload about 70 photos, and project plans (some…

Good morning, I like to place a file inside a specific dropbox folder for my directors to look. Now this same file I like to be on a separate folder were all my work space is being held. So that, the directors dont hace tu surf through all my files tk get to that one, and i have the same file on a golder were me team and I…

Eliminate alphabetical listing of uploaded photos. I want chronological order. How can I fix this?

Hello! I have connected Zoom to Dropbox, and for a few months it was working great. Now, only the audio transcript gets copied from Zoom, but not the actual video recordings. I get the usual message from Dropbox that says " ... recording is taking longer than usual to be copied", but then only the .vtt file gets copied…

I'm having a problem with a friend sending email attachments to DropBox when they use Apple Mail. The email attachments do not show up in my Email Attachments folder on my Windows DropBox app folder. Is there a workaround for this?

Hi! We run an annual Rotary scholarship program. We need a portal where more than 100 scholarship applicants can upload pdf, doc, and video files without having to "create an account" or login. No person uploading should see the files of other persons who uploaded. THEN, the files should be available for viewing by approx…

I need a customized hyper-link for my clients to manually enter or click on to go directly to the "upload files" screen. I want to "mask" the hyper-link to say my business name and not the string of numbers I get when generating the hyper-link inside of Drop Box.

I am closing my company, and I'm moving all my business files from a Cloud Service to my Dropbox for archiving. I will continue using a couple of these files for personal use (my QuickBooks file, and my Outlook PST files.) Is it safe to keep these in Dropbox, so that they will be auto-backed up when they are closed, or am…

When I use the Dropbox widget to scan a document on my iPhone, I take the photo, crop it, hit next, give it a simple filename with no special characters, choses a folder send click save, it just sits forever on uploading. Subsequent scans say waiting for upload. I have updated Dropbox to the latest version, and I am on iOS…