Need to see if your shared folder is taking up space on your dropbox 👨💻? Find out how to check here.
Forum Discussion
Juan G.10
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Como puedo evitar que se sincronicen los archivos de sistema de MAC como por ejemplo ._Icon y .DS_Store
Tengo un problema, he colocado una tarjeta SD de 128 Gb. en mi macbook para alojar la carpeta de datos de dropbox, pero me he encontrado con la sorpresa que cada vez que hay una modificación me duplica un archivo con el mismo nombre pero con estas iniciales delante ( ._ ) "punto y guión bajo", lógicamente ese archivo que genera no se puede abrir y aparte de molesto con otras aplicaciones me genera problemas que se copie en otros equipos que sincronizo.
Ejemplo de lo que ocurre:
Archivo original: prueba.pdf y el Archivo que genera renombrado es: ._prueba.pdf
Así con todos los ficheros, carpetas, etc... todo lo duplica.
¿Que ocurre?
¿No es compatible la tarjeta SD, para el uso que pretendo darle?
¿O bien tengo que hacer algo de configuración para que no copie esos archivos al dropbox?
4 Replies
Replies have been turned off for this discussion
- Claire G.1011 years agoNew member | Level 1
Hello!
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201456865
I'm sorry but we only have the forum in English, German or French.If you could switch to English - or French, as you're in the French section! - that would be brilliant. Thanks!
Bonjour !
Malheureusement, notre forum est seulement disponible en Français, Anglais et Allemand.
Si vous pouviez passez à l'un de ces 3 langages, je me ferai un plaisir de vous aider !
Merci !ps: ces fichiers sont des "Apple doubles" vous pouvez chercher sur Google pour en savoir plus à ce sujet. C'est lié au FileSystem de votre carte SD et non à Dropbox.
- Erika R.710 years agoNew member | Level 1
Hi Andrea. P
I have the same problem than Juan G. I configured and external unit of 1TB to be used as support for my dropbox business account, because I work with a lot of big files and i only have an internal flash storage unit with 500GB in my macbook. As soon the dropbox start with the indexing of files appears in the drive a copy of each file that keep the account syncing all the time. Each copy have the same name with a "._" after the name. Per example, a file name "sample.pdf" generate a new one with the name "._sample.pdf". To try fixed, i deleted all the temporary files with the "._" but there is one single file name "._icon" that don't let delete it and keep the dropbox syncing all the time. But, there isn't all. When I shutdown my macbook and turn on again, the dropbox create again the temporary files on the external unit.
The questions are:
- ¿Is that normal?
- ¿Should I return the dropbox to the internal storage drive?
I really appreciate your answer and I can translate the answer to Juan G.
Thank you so much!
- Ramon B.310 years agoNew member | Level 1
Hello,
Please, does anyone have the solution to delete files ?, thank you very much - Victor V.1310 years agoNew member | Level 1
Hi, I have the same problem. I have duplicated files in every folder, and I have 600GB of files in dropbox, so that's a lot of duplicated files with no purpose. Should they be hidden or something? This happens in every folder in dropbox:

About Poser une question
Trouvez des réponses dans les conversations démarrées par d'autres utilisateurs. Si vous n'en trouvez aucune, posez une nouvelle question.
The Dropbox Community team is active from Monday to Friday. We try to respond to you as soon as we can, usually within 2 hours.
If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X, Facebook or Instagram.
For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.
If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!