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Hello Hannah... the more the merrier! Yes, the same behavior exists if I close the Dropbox app before duplicating the file. A couple more odd behaviors: This behavior only exists in folders "managed" by Dropbox with or without the Dropbox app running. For example, I duplicated a file within a Dropbox managed folder and the…
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Reinstalled. Everything was re-indexed. No joy.
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Please see my last message. It says "Everything is up to date" Context menu from the original file. Context menu from the Duplicated file.
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Sorry... I should put all my observations in one reply. On the duplicated file that I can not rename, if I right-click on the file, the DropBox "Quick Actions" menu is not in the context menu. The interesting thing is that the DropBox Quick Actions menu is also missing from the file I created using the 'cp' command above…
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Two more datapoints. - If I use the 'cp' command to duplicate the file in Terminal, I DO have the rename option through Finder on the newly created file. - This issue occurs on different file types, not just Excel files.
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Another datapoint. I can rename the file using the 'mv' command in Terminal BUT I still do not have 'rename' option through Finder. It has to be a strange permissions issue between DropBox and Finder.
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It happens when you duplicate or copy/paste a file. The two ways to duplicate a file on a Mac that I use most often are Command+D (or right-click and select Duplicate). This creates an identical file in the same folder with " copy" appended to the file name. The rename option is missing. The other way is to Command+C and…
