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HexaJay
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2 years ago

Bulk moved files from Dropbox to iCloud, moved files now showing as zero KB

Hello community. Yesterday, I began to attempt to move many, many files that I've been keeping on Dropbox onto iCloud for consolidation purposes. We're talking thousands of dry but important document...
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Mark
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2 years ago

Hi HexaJay 

It sounds like you hadnt download the files and made them offline in Dropbox before moving to iCloud. As they are all 0byte files it sounds like they are empty placeholders rather than actual files. 

 

I'd suggest abandoning and trying again with downloading first

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