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Folders showing up empty when I send a link to someone
This has only been happening to me within the past week, but it is really hurting my business. I am always sending a folder with either video files or photos. Generally people are opening the link on...
Same thing happened to me. It's extremely annoying.
So far the thing that worked for me was to turn off tracking of viewers for that particular folder. Seems like when the person to whom you're sending the link refuses to be tracked, the folder appears empty. (Dropbox!!! Why should the priority be on tracking instead of actually doing your primary job - sharing the files?!)
So the way to do this: log in Dropbox.com via a browser -- find your folder -- click Share -- click the Settings gear icon -- under the tab "Folder settings" uncheck the option "Viewer info. Show who’s viewing files in this folder to people who can edit." -- click Save
(you might need to generate the sharing link again after this, not sure)
The tracking can also be turned off by default in your account settings -- under General tab find the option "See info about people who view my files" and switch it off.
Also, As far as my troubleshooting goes, with the folders I have had issues with:
I have tried resetting the link, sending/receiving via mobile AND desktop, Signed in or not signed in to Dropbox, with the mobile app and with a browser (on mobile) and even tried iPhone vs Android and nothing seemed to change the result in any way.
For me personally (as referenced in my last post) this seems to only happen to me with a folder that contains video files. With photos it usually works but sometimes I have to reset the link 1 or 2 times before it does.
My temporary solution is that I have to send individual links to each video file.
To all:
I’m sorry that you’re all dealing with the same issue(s) that I’ve had for weeks now! Dropbox still hasn’t done anything to fix this but I noticed they released an update today on the App Store (at least for iPhone, v. 292.2 as of this writing). Perhaps this will fix it!? I appreciate all of your feedback… started thinking I was the only one.
If I go back to using iCloud after this Dropbox, well, you know why.
I’m sorry that you’re all dealing with the same issue(s) that I’ve had for weeks now! Dropbox still hasn’t done anything to fix this but I noticed they released an update today on the App Store (at least for iPhone, v. 292.2 as of this writing). Perhaps this will fix it!? I appreciate all of your feedback… started thinking I was the only one.
If I go back to using iCloud after this Dropbox, well, you know why.
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