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Two Dropbox folders after migration from old Mac to new
A couple of days after I did my migration I noticed on the new Mac there are two dropbox folders, the one that should be syncing with my other devices is called “DropBox personal” however, after the ...
Jay
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Dropbox Community ModeratorIn general, the modification dates of folders vary, according to this section of the article my colleague posted.
Currently, there isn't a method to keep the modification date of folders the same across all devices.
I'm in transit and will post screen grabs to illustrate. I'm talking about if I'm able to. To attach an image am I required to put in any more information other than the directory path? Last time I tried that did not seem to do the trick. (I wish I could do dragon drop or there's a button, like most other platforms to target a file in a directory)
Sorry it took a while for me to research and find that any image files I post necessarily have to come from the dropbox folder. Here's an AB comparison between the old MacBook that had the correct behavior, honoring actual modification dates and the same folder on the new MacBook, which bulk changes modification dates on folders that have not been used/hence not been modified.
I did some research about posting images and learned that they needed to be linked from within the dropbox folder, I moved the image files into my dropbox folder, copied the link and entered it in the appropriate box, but no image resulted in the preview, what could I be doing wrong? As an additional thing, I noticed that the dropbox icon such as the checkmark, etc., that used to appear next to files and folders in my MacBook dropbox folder are no longer there, I'm being told my files are up-to-date so don't know why I can't link to the aforementioned image files
I've tried everything I can think of to post an image, but I always get an empty box that would include the description if I entered it. Once a while back somehow I stumbled on the right way to insert an image, but everything I try is a dead end. I've tried to copy the dropbox link to the image both in my MacBook dropbox folder, as well as on the web interface (that I generally never use) I've tried converting the screen grab into a JPEG but nothing works. Thanks in advance for any help.
I conducted a test by suspending synk and replacing a folder that had been erroneously changed as being recently modified with a copy that had the valid modification date. After a period of 24 hours or so I see that this folder was updated today's date, even though there had been no activity. When I went into the folder to confirm that I reviewing its contents I saw the two alias files had been updated, even though they nor the original files they pointed to had been touched for a long time. So this is another strange behavior where files namely, alias files, are getting updated within a folder and then the folder having its modification date altered even though there has been *no activity* on its contents.
