Richard P. Super User Alumni

Ive been around Dropbox since the day they opened to the public, and the 16GB and 32GB limits have always existed - Pro accounts started in 2008, and before then you were limited to 2GB +16GB + promotions. There is no point at which you could have achieved 49GB through referrals.

There is absolutely no way you can amass 49GB of space through referrals - for Basic accounts it maxes out at 16GB, for Pro the limit is 32GB. So you may have bonuses from other promotions which have expired.

No - the intention is that you never handle the user credentials. If you want to use a central DB account, then the best thing to do is do the authentication process during your development, and include the valid auth token in the final build of the app - then it never has to auth with Dropbox, its already been done. You…

There is no way to hide ._ files, they are created by OSX to store extended attributes when the files are on a filesystem that doesnt support OSX extended attributes. How much space they take up depends on the data stored in them - most of the time they are less than a Kilobyte in size.

Im afraid FTP isnt something that Dropbox wants to do.

No, I'm afraid Dropbox does not support FTP or any method of uploading data other than via the clients, the website or the API (over HTTP/HTTPS).

Other desktop apps probably aren't worrying about it - its no different to the situation with Android apps etc in reality. If someone wants your app key, then when its on a users device its trivial to get at. Data going through your service wouldn't be a security issue, as they are already fine with it going through your…

Run your own web service and tunnel all Dropbox access via that. Other than that, if both the application token and the client token is available to me locally, there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop me extracting and using them. You have already put them in an environment you cannot control, so there is nothing you…

Moved to API forum.

Actually, Joseph, it was a change made in response to a boat load of feed back from users who wanted it moved there. Cant please them all.....

I fully appreciate also that this isn't just a Dropbox problem but it is where the world is moving Until some significant things are fixed with the standard network filesystem protocols, I don't see Dropbox changing their stance on this. For example, currently SMB has no requirement to propagate filesystem events to…

I for example have a 3TB NAS at home where I keep my personal files, and photos that I would prefer to backup to cloud as well as sync back to from Dropbox from my phone without being restricted to my local laptop's limitiations Quite a few NAS systems have a Dropbox client within which you can achieve that directly on the…

I'm afraid I can't suggest anything because the chance of data loss is quite high.

Dropbox doesn't support network locations due to issues that have come up before.

Dropbox doesnt go by extensions, it just syncs everything in the Dropbox folder.

You can log a support ticket at www.dropbox.com/support but I wouldn't hold your breath I'm afraid.

Is there any way to restore the files past 30 days? No, not if you didnt have Extended Version History at the time of the deletion and continuously since. I thought that only the original owner of the files can permanently delete them. But that's not what you say happened in your post - "permanently deleting" files means…

You cant, the promotion ended earlier this year, there is no 50GB bonus any more.

I dont think you got it recently - at least not since April. And no, you can't swap it in any case.

The promotion ended earlier this year, no new Samsung phones currently offer the free space, and old ones cannot activate the space any more.

Jonathan, the promotion ended earlier this year, no Samsung device is eligible any more.

No, because as I just said, the promotion has ended - you cant get any space from a Samsung device anymore, whether or not you use a new account.

You cant. Firstly, the promotion has ended. Secondly, you cant claim the same promotion twice on one account.

Log a support ticket at www.dropbox.com/support - they might be able to help. Support tickets take on average 3 business days, and can be tracked at http://dropbox.zendesk.com

I recently purchased a preinstalled S7 Edge with dropbox and I have not applied the promotion of 48 Gb. I wanted to know what happened. As noted several times in this thread in the past month, the promotion has ended.

"Users/MyMacBookAir/Public/DropBox/Archive Photo 2/London Trip Videos/London Trip Videos from Panasonic Videocam" That DropBox is actually unrelated to this service - its a folder created by Apple for people to drop files into your computer when you turn that ability on on your Mac. Completely and utterly not related to…

Then dont recommend them if you can't recommend them - its as easy as that. But allowing deep packet inspection doesn't solve all the problems in the world - what if Dropboxes API is a binary one, what then? Demands for the spec to see what's going on? What about binary files? Archives? ISO's? Removing the certificate…

That's the point of it.

I doubt that is going to happen, as Dropbox use the certificate for authentication purposes as well as protecting the API.

If you replace the file with one named identically and in the same place, subsequent visitors will get the updated version.