Special Character in Filename causing lack of syncing

Hey Tony K.16, thanks for the comment here. 

These look like they might be system files that are trying to sync to your Dropbox.

Did you perhaps enable the computer backup feature on the Dropbox application?

Do you have a 'PC' named folder in your Dropbox folder and are you able to locate these files there?

I have the exact same issue, in my MacBook Pro everything shows up, but in my Surface 8 I couldn't find a file a was looking for, then I started looking for other files, and BINGO, there were more than 1,000 files missing on my Surface. The trouble is that the Dropbox dialog says everything "is up to date", without any issues.

I even uninstalled and deleted my whole Dropbox folder, and re installed it, again, the same number of files we not shown on my Surface.

Please do something, at least, let us know if a file in the cloud is not being shown on the device.

Thanks,

Thanks for the nudge here, Manuelcorde.

Are you still having this issue or did you manage to resolve it?

If you click on the Dropbox icon in your system tray, then on your initials/profile pic and then on 'view sync issues', you should be able to see these kinds of issues.

Let me know what you find.

Feature requests: 

1. Warn users if a file or folder contains characters restricted on some operating systems.
2. Add a "find" feature in the web console that can help find files or folders using restricted characters, so they can be renamed.
3. Add a global "replace" feature in the web console in which a non-restricted character (such as a hyphen) can be used to replace any instances of a restricted character (such as a colon, pipe, or slash).

Thanks,

L.

Hey lenpal, thanks for your feedback!

For future reference, note that you can post your feature requests (preferably separate) in our Ideas section. 

You can take a look at this thread for more tips on posting your ideas.

Cheers!

To Dropbox: I have thousands of files named with a special characters. I can't synch these without renaming them, and my life won't be long enough to rename them all. If there is no workaround on this, I can't use DropBox, which didn't have this feature in previous versions--used it for 10-15 years!

Please help or tell me to leave.

I have found i have 384 files that promise to sync but don't and no way of finding out where/what they are.  It's a shambles but Dropbox has got noticeably worse in the last year or two. I guess that is near monopoly status