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JefW
7 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
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...
Labtab
4 years agoHelpful | Level 5
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!
structaural
4 years agoHelpful | Level 6
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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