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Android scratch folder disappeared
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.
I am also not getting downloaded files into the scratch folder, it is missing.
They are downloaded to my android tab since I can access content with an editor which uses content addresses and I am offline, but where are they located.
Help.
Strange... 🧐 🤔 My local Dropbox files have never hidened and always reside on the same place:
I have verified this on Android 6, 9, and 10. The above is from my last phone running Android 10. 🤷 Dropbox version 214.2.6 (the last one at this post moment). All media files get accessible successfully. 😉 I'm successfully playing a song with VLC right now.
I'm having the same issue on my Note 9. This offline files folder randomly deletes for me after working for a few weeks. I've been through this cycle a few times, and sometimes it starts working again mysteriously. I would second the opinion that the feature is extremely limited bordering on useless without being able to have unrestricted file access to the offline files. It is still unclear to me whether the feature is supposed to work (i.e. should always be in the scratch directly) but buggy, or if Dropbox is intentionally clearing the scratch folder periodically even though I have offline files there.
