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meganh32
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

How to view previews of online-only files on desktop (like how you can in the mobile app)? - macOS

I'm trying to figure out how to see previews, specifically of .jpeg online files, on my mac desktop. I use Dropbox almost exclusively for photo management and it's frustrating not even being able to ...
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pizzamargherita
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Also Google Drive works great. Definitely a Dropbox issue.

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Ed M.27
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Same issue here, it's rendering Dropbox pointless for me. Shame my annual subscription just renewed too as I can't stick with another year of this.

 

GDrive seems to work properly for me, I can search and see previews of files. Very close to binning off Dropbox after years and years of use for a Google One account.

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