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FFI
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Images moved from Macbook to Dropbox folders not showing thumbnails and not opening

I have a dropbox family account of which I am the owner. All the images I have moved from my macbook pro to dropbox folders show the thumbnails and open on double clicking when I first add them. Howe...
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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hi there, FFI, and thanks for reaching out to us.

 

If you select your images, right/control click on them and choose to make them available offline, does this issue go away?

 

Let me know.

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FFI
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Thank you for your response. I tried this and it will allow me to open the images now without right clicking but iy still doesn't show the thumbnail unless I click on the actual image then it shows them in the columns as an image (if that makes sense). I don't know the correct terminology for them.

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    FFI
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago

    Also, it mesas I will have to do this for thousands of images before I see what I have in the columns. 

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      Hannah
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      2 years ago

      Thanks for the update, FFI.

       

      Would you mind sending me a screenshot of how the images appear in your Dropbox folder?

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        FFI
        Explorer | Level 3
        2 years ago

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