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sjesser
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago
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Use of "/" and other symbols

Thank you for taking the time to ready my question.   When I create folders they have these types of names and use these types of symbols:   06/08/18_Property Management Company Name_Property Add...
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    sjesser
    8 years ago

    Thank you so much for your reply.

     

    It appears I have solved the problem. Even though the error message says the forward slash is not an acceptable symbol it works!

     

    Interestingly enought though, the forward slash is replaced with a colon when I few my files on a mobile device such as my phone or iPad. Weird.

     

    ...and yes. I am running the most current version of both DropBox and iOS.

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sjesser
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

Noted this in your link so now it really doesn't make sense...

 

"Note that on Mac computers only, Dropbox will sync files that include a forward slash in the file name to dropbox.com. However, these files will sync to dropbox.com with a : (colon) in place of the / (forward slash). Files with forward slashes sync to other Mac computers, but they can't be synced to Windows computers."

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