Rich Super User II

Has the Start Dropbox on system startup option been removed from Preferences?

A red X on your files indicates a sync error, which can happen when a filename contains illegal or incompatible characters. More than likely the emoji characters are simply not compatible and you won't be able to sync them. While the following help article doesn't list emoji characters, it does provide information on why…

No, it wouldn't be any different. No one but you can restore files in your account. If that's your concern, I think you're worrying over nothing.

wrote:I cannot change the time zone in the settings of my Dropbox account. It is stuck as GMT-05:00 Eastern? And you've changed the Automatic time zone switch from On to Off? Automatic time zone OnAutomatic time zone Off

No.

No, not from the Deleted Files page.

You can delete files en masse by selecting groups of them first and then clicking on Delete. They will be deleted from your account but not permanently deleted. You can then permanently delete them from the Deleted Files page (formerly a trash can icon). There is no way to permanetly delete files in a single action. *…

There is no way to edit a contact. You can remove all third-party contacts (see the link above) and then re-add those services, but that's it.

There is nothing for Dropbox to fix here as the feature is working as intended. The purpose of starring a file is to make it appear on your Dropbox Home page for easy access; nothing more. * https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/star-doc-file-folder

A "scanned" document saved in PDF form (whether it was from Dropbox or any other application) isn't in a format that can be easily modified as text. Basically, the entire page of a scanned document is one large image. The lines of text you see usually can't be selected/highlighted because the PDF viewer doesn't see them as…

Is this within a folder in your own Dropbox account, or from a link to a folder that was given to you? If it's from a link that was given to you, the only option you have is to download the entire folder or download one file at a time.

wrote:I'm looking for a way of obtaining downloading link for each of them through the shell. Any suggestions? There is no such function available within the Dropbox app or website. Share links can only be created manually, one at a time. If you have any programming skills you may be able to use the Dropbox API to generate…

You can update your notificaiton preferences on your Notifications page.

And just for completeness, remember that the speed you see reported by Dropbox is not simply the transfer speed of your data. Tom and Jay have already mentioned the encryption, but also, each file that you upload is hashed, compressed, then transferred, encrypted, and stored on the Dropbox servers. That entire process is…

@"Matthew S.22" wrote:... I wish that right up front I could have been told that DropBox does not support true sharing with iOS devices at this time. But it DOES support sharing on iOS. It seems that you're confusing share links with shared folders. Please read my latest reply, which seems to have crossed with yours, and…

wrote:I was able to "share" the folder by sending the link to others. And this is where we believe the problem is. Sending a link to a folder is not the same as a Shared Folder. A Share Link is a view-only method of sharing. Anyone that adds the content of a Share Link to their Dropbox will be creating their own copy of…

No. You have to compare the conflicted copies and make any necessary changes yourself.

Do you have an Export option? On iOS, Open in... is available after selecting Export.

What you're trying to do isn't possible with Dropbox. There is no way to access the files while they only exist online. You either need to use the Dropbox website, or you need to download them to your computer first. Dropbox Professional has a Smart Sync option which allows you to mark files as available online-only. This…

wrote:Most file storage systems at least have a column with file sizes. As does Dropbox. Just change the column header to show Size. A total size for the current folder would also be helpful. Display the Size column, select a folder and click Calculate size from the menu on the right. Even the total storage…

wrote:It's totally ridiculous that it's impossible to view the simple number of files in a folder, much the less total size of the files in that folder. You mean like this: And this: Just select all files in a folder and you'll get the total number of items selected. For folder size, change one of the column headers to…

While a user can open a share link on a mobile device and it will display in the Dropbox app (if installed), there's no where in the app to see a list of items that have been shared via a link. Share links have no tracking and nothing to associate them to a specific account (other than the creator of the link), so there's…

You're thinking of it as a filename when it's actually a document title. Semantics, I get it, but that's the intent. Think of it like the title of a book when you open it; the title is in bold at the top of the page.

Dropboxアカウントのファイルは、オフラインで利用可能であるとマークしていない限り、携帯電話のスペースを占有しません。 Dropboxアプリでファイルを開いたり表示したりすると、そのファイルは一時的に電話機に保存されます。

You'll still be able to upload and access your files through the Dropbox app. It's just the integration into Samsung's own apps that will no longer be available. This is due to Samsung using an older Dropbox API that is being retired.

@"edugsdf" wrote:I need to save space on my hard drive. Smart Sync would be the perfect solution, but it still does not work on linux fedora. When will we have this solution? At the moment, Smart Sync is only available on Windows and Mac. Dropbox has made no announcement on its availability on Linux. They usually don't…

I'm not contradicting myself. Server 2003 was XP based, and nearly any piece of software that would run on XP would run on Server 2000 and Server 2003. Only applications that had specific driver requirements were likely to be a problem when server drivers weren't available. This is likely why Dropbox was able to work…

Selectively Synced folders (those that you have unchecked) do not exist on the computer* so they cannot take up space. Also, since they're not on the computer, your OS can't include them in its calculation. * Note: If you've recently removed some folders using Selective Sync, Dropbox has likely moved them to its cache…

There was no need to post a notice about Server 2008 because Dropbox has never supported Server 2008 (or any server OS). The fact that it did work on previous server operating systems is immaterial to the notification that was sent. Dropbox ending support and disabling the client on XP, Vista, etc. had nothing to do with…

thiagomf11 wrote:I have always used Dropbox on Windows Server It has worked in the past but was never officially supported. The fact that it has worked was likely due to the fact that previous server operating systems were based on the exact same technologies used in your desktop operating systems (XP, Windows 7, etc.).…