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I have been having trouble recently opening dropbox files on my mac laptop, so I decided to make more folders available offline. I used the app's Sync and Storage option and selected a folder with many subfolders to download to my hard drive. It began creating copies of the subfolders. These appear to contain data, they…
Hello there, I just wondered if anyone has ever done this with any success (or even if it's possible). I've bought a new Macbook and I'm going to use both of them. On my original Mac I have lots of fonts. If I copy all my Fonts to a Fonts folder in my Dropbox. Can I point Fontbook to it, so both Macbooks will have all the…
Synchronization Problem We work as a team using Dropbox and store our data on an external drive. Everything had been working fine until now. Now my Mac is constantly indexing / syncing. It’s a new device, a new external hard drive, and I have a stable and fast internet connection. The external hard drive is formatted as…
Device (Macbook Pro M2) Operating System/Browser (if using the web) (macOS 26.3) Dropbox App Version/Browser Version (243.3.6933) Issue We are using Dropbox via File Provider on macOS 26. The message appears when a local file is made online-only. We see this with Pages, Numbers, and Microsoft Office files. Strangely, it…
Hello everyone, We're experiencing a recurring issue with Dropbox on macOS that affects several users at our company. For several months, some users have been randomly losing folders selected for Selective Sync. Without any apparent action on the user's part, many folders previously selected for sync become unselected and…
In a world full of .git files, AIs running around touching things, and media/storage/blob files that are 100gb each, having a "single auto-fire" sync with no visibility is archaic. Let us SEE our sync Let us STOP our sync completely (not pause) Let us TRUNCATE our sync (if I am stuck on letter "d" in the alphabet, surely…
everyday I copy 6 files from work to home. everyday the time it takes varies I tried to use Applescript but, as soon as the file copy to the folder, the Mac thinks the files are there, but really, they are in copy mode. I need to know when the files are officially copied and the files all have the green icon.
I recently built a new computer and took my old SSD which was only used for Dropbox files and connected it to my new computer. After doing this, its been stuck on indexing for days. I first saw it stopped indexing due to a corrupt file, so I removed it and indexing moved along from 157,177 files to 157,076 files. Since…
Hi I added comments into a text file, saved it and uploaded the file into Dropbox on my PC. I can open Dropbox in two ways: taskbar > globe (1) etc. or taskbar > Folders (2) etc. When I open Dropbox (1): the file opens but without my comments. Going route (2): the comments are visible. Is this the way it should be? Is…
Hello, I am experiencing a connection problem with the Dropbox desktop application on Windows 11. The Dropbox website works normally in my browser, and I can sign in to my account and access my files online. However, the desktop application cannot connect and shows the following message: “No Internet connection. Your…
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