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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...
I noticed this too! I transferred all of my fonts over to DB thinking it would make for a good backup, only to learn later (not sure when it might have happened) that all the fonts were corrupted and as you say show a files size of zero.
(I'm glad I have another means of backup and did not lose all those fonts!)
Just to point out my fonts are fine if I go to them using the Finder and the Dropbox folder structure on my Mac drive. Then they are properly structured with metadata intact. So you might find that yours are fine, if you try this. I have 2TB of data though, so I tend to use selective sync a lot.
But in the browser - they are listed as zero bytes and don't download correctly. So I think I'm only going to use the browser for searching for files and certainly not for sharing them.
Older fonts are particularly prone to this as they store all their data in the resource fork.
Anyway no response from Dropbox, I can assume this won't be fixed, as this thread is over 2 years old.
I too have not had a resolution... I'm leaving Dropbox as it's too unreliable and they're obviously not going to fix this bug, also having issues with Selective Sync, Dropbox you were almost awesome!
Yeah, I think they give less and less of a **bleep** about Apple - we're probably in a minority - most of us using iCloud (which I refuse to, apple can sod off here in the Netherlands too - doesn't support our main way of paying here.). Time Machine doesn't work with Dropboxes offline files either - forces them to download. And we're still waiting for an M1 version of the Dropbox app - which Dropbox said they had no interest in developing. And they broke symlinks a couple of years ago, which I heavily relied on.
Still, historically why I like Dropbox is when I couldn't pay for it for six months (bad time) they didn't delete my files or stop me from downloading them. I just couldn't upload. Wheresa I failed to pay for iCloud for a couple of months and they deleted all my data...
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