Rich Super User II

There's no need to change the location of your Dropbox folder if all you're doing is backing up your Dropbox. You would only do that if your intent was to move the Dropbox folder to a new location permanently. You do, however, need to have all your files local before you could copy them to another location for backup.…

That won't do you any good. There are so many things that affect speed that you could have two people with an identical setup and still have wildly different speeds. Your computer, your local network, your ISP, the route your traffic takes to get to Dropbox, the Dropbox network and servers, congestion along any part of the…

When you're looking at the numbers, make sure you're comparing apples to apples, and not oranges. The speed from your ISP is likely listed in Kb/s or Mb/s; megabits. The speeds reported by Dropbox are in KB/s or MB/s; bytes. You need to do the conversion before you can simply compare them. Also, the speed you see from…

@"MikkelCallesen" wrote:Maybe one could have a %DropBox%\......... You can easily create that yourself if you have everyone use the same variable. Just remember that if anyone renames any shared folder that you're trying to link to, the path will still fail. Anyone can rename a shared folder and it will only be renamed for…

Dropbox has been moving away from photo management over the last several years. Every good feature they've ever had that made managing and sharing photos easy and sensible has been removed. They even shut down their companion app, Carousel, which was meant specifically for photo management. Dropbox is no longer the best…

@"mikkelHC" wrote:How would i send a path to my coworker that he/she can copy to his file explorer and it will direct him to the correct path? Dropbox has no such function. The path to a file on your computer will not be the same as the path to a file on someone else's computer, even if that file is in the same folder…

Short answer... no. And remember that the path to a file on your computer will not be the same as the path to a file on someone else's computer, even if that file is in the same shared folder. By default, each user's Dropbox folder is located within their computer user profile, which often include that person's name or…

More than likely the files in question were the dot underscore ( ._ or AppleDouble) files that OS X or macOS create on non-native drive partitions. It's not an issue to be resolved because everything is working as it should. The files are created by the operating system, Dropbox sees them and syncs them as it's supposed…

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Collaboration is about working with others, which is the entire point of a Shared Folder within the Dropbox environment. It doesn't make sense, in the intended use, to hide the members of a shared folder from one another.

The only response I have is that if you feel the need to play Internet Police on a topic that's nearly a year old, next time, look more closely at your own replies before hitting that Reply button. I'll leave you to find the error. Considering you were able to find my use of "bandwidth" on a post that was buried, it should…

Yes, I know, but in the way it has been described by Dropbox, both on these forums and within their own help articles, it's a daily bandwidth limit; not a transfer limit. For the sake of keeping the verbage the same, on these forums, I describe it as such. Your average user that's asking about such limits isn't going to…

Last I saw, even when installed normally (not as a service), the Dropbox app wasn't running correctly on server-based Windows operating systems. It used to work, but I believe some application dependencies changed which aren't part of the more modern server operating systems, and that broke Dropbox on those systems. Maybe…

@"cfmspencer" wrote:A new web browser just signed in to your Dropbox account. ... how do I know if someone successfully logged into my account... The message you received tells you. A new web browser signed in to your account. It wasn't unsuccessful. That message is only sent upon a successful sign-in. Change your…

Sign-in to the Dropbox website, find the folder in your your Files list, and click the Share button to the right of it. The sharing options for that folder, along with a list of members, will open.

@"COuser" wrote:You can then edit in Pixlr and save back to Dropbox Or most any image editor available for the device in question. The point being that Dropbox isn't a photo editor. You'll need to open the file in a third-party app to do it. [This thread is now closed by moderators due to inactivity. If you're experiencing…

No one here can do that for you. If you're part of a Business team, then only the Team Admin within your organization can initiate that. They have the ability to covert your account, or they can contact Support directly to have it converted. [This thread is now closed by moderators due to inactivity. If you're experiencing…

@"AnthonyDal" wrote:Is there a way to embedd my upload link to my dropbox within an HTML friendly text box? No, there isn't. The Dropbox website cannot be embedded in your own page. Your best course of action would be to create a File Request, and then link to it within your HTML document.

@"danidar" wrote:i just want to have one direction sync.. from dropbox to local storage and I want dropbox to ignore what is on local storage and not upload it again. No such option exists. Dropbox is intended to sync files in both directions. It cannot be configured to only sync from the cloud to your computer. I want…

@"pcunger1" wrote:After having dragged the folder into the Dropbox folder, the original folder remained just where it had been on my device. But did the original folder still contain the full content that it originally had prior to the move? When moving a folder, there are times where the operating system is unable to…

Free or Paid doesn't matter. By default, the Dropbox folder on your computer is ON your computer and takes up local drive space. The primary purpose of Dropbox is to sync files between your computer and your account online, along with other devices linked to your account. Dropbox is, by default, not a cloud-based folder or…

Professional and Business accounts, as stated above. The feature is not available on Basic or Plus accounts.

Now it's the opposite. You want to use a Shre Link to the folder but you're probably creating a Shared Folder instead. Share Links do not require an account. Shared Folders do. Follow the steps in the first link that I posted above.

You can't. The ability to disable downloads is only available on Professional and Business accounts. * https://www.dropbox.com/help/files-folders/set-link-permissions#disable-downloads

@"EJMiller" wrote:Seems wasteful to install full copies locally, especially if the idea is to conserve space on local computers. But that's not the purpose of Dropbox. It can help save space on your local drive with features like Selective Sync and Smart Sync, but it's primary purpose is to sync everything in your local…

@"EJMiller" wrote:So then, uninstalling from a local computer does not affect the master files themselves, presumably stored in the cloud. Correct, though there aren't any "master" files (more on that below). what exactly is stored on each local computer, then? Just pointers to the master files? Each computer that has…

@"Pike_Constr" wrote:When I download the project folder to my dropbox account on my desktop, the links also worked. When I sent out a link from my Dropbox to someone else and they clicked on the hyperlink on their devise, the hyperlink do not work/open for the other person. It's the same problem that Walter described. The…

* https://www.dropbox.com/help/files-folders/share-with-others

A exclusão de fotos da galeria no seu telefone não as excluirá do Dropbox. No entanto, se você excluí-los do aplicativo do Dropbox, eles serão excluídos do Dropbox.