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Mac osx - strange extra files appearing when downloading files directly.
Just had a strange issue with some files that I directly downloaded from our DB folders. On the website, I went to one of my shared folders from another team member, and clicked on 2 files (illustra...
Whatever Dropbox are using to compress my Mac files - it is not doing it properly - as these files should uncompress on a Mac without the __MACOS folder. It's like the files are being compressed on a mac - then unzipped on a PC and then re-compressed again, and something is corrupting the names and data of the resource forks of the Mac files. Fonts for instance keep most of their data in the resource fork (which is why so many don't work on a PC).
If I make a ZIP on my Mac - put it on the server and uncompress it using a PC I get a similar structure to the files from Dropbox but without the corrupted resource data. So it's still useable.
Dropbox ZIPs though, are corrupted. And anyway as I said at the beginning should not be showing this folder structure but should only show the files themselves on a Mac. This folder structure should only show up when unzipping on a PC.
So Dropbox - the failure is at your end. Please fix!
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorEDIT:
Hi all - thanks for your reports and feedback on this.
Could you try the walk-around described here and let us if it works for you?
Could you try the walk-around described here and let us if it works for you?
Thanks Walter, but I honestly don't see how that post is relevant to this one at all. Did you accidentally post this in the wrong thread? No one here is saying they're getting an "error 1" when attempting to unzip a file.
Confused. 🙂- Walter
@Walter, the answers you linked are not helpful. Is it possible for you to provide a status on this issue? Is it even being investigated at the current time or has it been abandoned as "resolved"? We need to know whether progress is being made on this issue or whether we're losing our time here trying to get a solution. Thank you for your understanding.
In my post above, I have specifically described the root cause of the issue, namely that it stems from the Dropbox servers running on Mac and thus being default behaviour. What do you have to say on this? Will you please comment on this explanation specifically?
Edit: misunderstanding, all's good (poster posted on the wrong thread and will edit answer)
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