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JefW
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7 years ago

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...
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Walter
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4 years ago
EDIT:

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?
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JefW
Collaborator | Level 9
4 years ago

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. 🙂

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    Walter
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    4 years ago
    Nice catch JefW - I was indeed intending to post this on another thread. 

    I'll go ahead and edit my previous reply to avoid any confusion moving forward. 

    For more information on the issue described in this discussion, you can have a look at Lusil's post here. 
    • Mxm5G6's avatar
      Mxm5G6
      Helpful | Level 5
      4 years ago

      @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?

      • Walter's avatar
        Walter
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        4 years ago
        Hey Mxm5G6 - thanks for your nudge. 

        When it comes to your hypothesis, I'm afraid it's not quite right. If it was, everyone who uses Dropbox would be seeing those files. 

        As mentioned, _MACOSX folders are normally hidden folders containing metadata of the files. However, its contents may be read by Windows OS. 

        Were the files you noticed this on stored on a Mac computer at some point in the past?

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