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Hi, I have been using dropbox for a while to sync audiobooks between my pc & phone (S9+). After a phone restart today, the scratch folder & all files are missing. I tried redownloading the files & dro...
Hi PhantomRick, this is due to a recent change in the Android app, which you can see more details about here.
Okay. I don't remember the file structure exactly, because I set the player library a while ago. When I change my audiobooks on the pc & the pc app finishes syncing, I then go to the phone app, select all files & "make available offline", to which the individual files are then one by one download. After all selected files are downloaded, they are then marked with a green down arrow.
I cannot set the folder "Make available offline" because I would need to upgrade for that option & 2Gb is sufficient for my needs.
So far you have criticised the terminology I have used & told me how I doing it wrong. Please let me know how I can make this work so I can find the files locally on my phone & set the directory in my audiobook player to see those files.
This shouldn't be that complicated.
I cannot set the folder "Make available offline" because I would need to upgrade for that option & 2Gb is sufficient for my needs.
So far you have criticised the terminology I have used & told me how I doing it wrong. Please let me know how I can make this work so I can find the files locally on my phone & set the directory in my audiobook player to see those files.
This shouldn't be that complicated.
Android/data/com.dropbox.android/files/[user id]/scratch 🤔
Did you check there or not yet? Check it!
- Yes. Both internal & external.
Android/data/com.dropbox.android/files/ is empty on the external sd card, Android/data/com.dropbox.android/ is empty on the internal storage.
There is no [user Id] folder.[user id] should be something like 'u235631156', not literally the same.
Anyway... If the 'files' folder is empty, I can't say anything more. Sounds very strange! As a last resort you can try application reinstall.
- Tried that. I said that in my original post.
