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For Mac in Parallels, if you turn on file sharing between Mac and Parallels, you can send files to each other using UNC paths. You can set mapped drives and then use them like you would anything else. On mine, the Mac is referenced like \\Mac\ in Windows. If your Dropbox is at \\Mac\username\Dropbox, then that's your…
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As an FYI, if you don't share what is your working solution, you're not assisting others with the same problem as they'll wonder "OK, what are you doing to solve it?" Simple solution is to install Dropbox on your Mac and then make a mapped drive using Parallels so that it maps your Dropbox in Windows 11. Then you get to…
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There's a great app called DropSync. I've been using it for years and it will do what you need. It keeps your folder and PC in sync with Dropbox. If you add songs on either device, it syncs it back, if you make tag changes, rename them, etc, it will sync back. Delete them and they will delete too. Great convenience this.
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I reported a big bug where on the MacOS client that you'd move files from a folder but if moved from online state to a certain drive that it would just not download but would delete from the Dropbox online location anyway. The fact that it's not mentioned here makes me assume that you still haven't fixed this. It did this…
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OneDrive will download the files before it moves the file. Dropbox will not even try to download the file. It just moves the placeholder. Regardless of "oh, this is Apple" or whatever, the fact that it does it means that it should disable online only until it finds a way to fix it. The fact OneDrive doesn't have this…
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Be careful with online only files. Apparently if you move them, the system will just completely delete the files off your system from Finder leaving you with a 0 byte placeholder and it doesn't auto download any online files before moving it. OneDrive doesn't do this. Just be forewarned.
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This is seriously a very annoying popup now because now it not only does this for EVERY file I delete that is on my PC with SmartSync, that box that's in the first message is not there to let me suppress this box. v136.4.4345 is the version I have I mean, I get it that it will be deleted from my account. That's why I'm…
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OK..... how about if everyone also shares the problem they're running into and support contacts them from here so we can see the result so we don't have to contact support directly? Isn't that the point of having forums? Having symlinks to folders outside of Dropbox is not a good idea on any PC... If it's on the same…
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That's my understanding from years of using services like this. An older build of iTunes used to have issues synchronizing files that had some of these types of indexes on them so one way to strip those indexes from an NTFS drive was to copy it to an exFAT drive. Those indexes always came from OneDrive or Dropbox. It…
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I can tell you a solution you won't like... don't use an external drive with Dropbox. I had a Surface 3 with a micro SD card slot and tried using Dropbox. The Dropbox installer won't let you use it as a drive so the workaround was to map the SD card to an NTFS folder. Problem is that is often disconnected or lost sync,…
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I don't use Google Drive so I can't say if I get the same results. For me, I turn on my Synology NAS, put the files on my drive there, and the system takes care of syncing it to Dropbox. I can have it do 10 files at the same time and each one goes for about 5MB each.... but it does 10 at the same time. Not sure if you're…
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I was using my Synology NAS with the great Dropbox client in there. It was getting 45MB/sec upstream (I have 840Mb/ upload speed with FIOS).... so that's 360Mb/sec. It uploaded my 740GB collection in about 12 hours or so? I didn't check how long it took but I set it up after getting annoyed that Amazon Drive lost 20 of my…
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I've never had this problem. Are any of you putting your Dropbox folder outside of your personal user folders? To be honest, I've had nothing but good things with Dropbox lately. Sure, I dislike the lack of a 2TB option and will run into that ceiling in a few months.... but for now, I put this on my NAS and it doesn't…
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I was watching the TWIT.tv show Know How and they were talking about Synology NAS boxes. Apparently, you can store your files on that and you can configure it to work off multiple cloud services. Like, you can set up a share and put your videos in one and the NAS will sync that to Dropbox, let's say. Music can go in…
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I'm pulling my videos off of Dropbox. I was using Dropbox solely as a backup platform so I don't need all the multi-PC sync of it. For 1/2 the price $5/mo, I just signed up for Amazon Drive to back up my 1TB of videos. It's not pretty and it's not as elegant as Dropbox, but it does what I need..... an off-site backup of…
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I just asked about this as I'm up to 75% of my 1TB allocation currently and fortunately have OneDrive since I use the Office365 so I can put some overflow on that platform. The problem is that I asked them about the Business plan option after seeing that it was $15 monthly. Then I read the fine print and it said "for 3…
