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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...
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey 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?
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?
Well, it seems like the issue might have been silently resolved perhaps because I cannot reproduce it anymore with the same steps and files (on Windows 10).
I used to be able to reproduce it every time no matter the files. Can anyone else test if they can still reproduce the issue? If so can they provide a minimally reproducible example with exact steps with fresh files?
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