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Can't understand the meaning of the Dropbox icon in the finder and it doesn't sync.
My system info HW: Apple M1 Pro OS: Ventura 13.5 (22G74) Dropbox ver: v180.3.4837 & joined beta Dropbox beta has an incomprehensible behavior when using the file provider feature on macOS. As shown in the finder screenshot below, I have set "Make available offline" except for a few folders. However, the cloud with arrow icon(next to the dropbox icon) is "not downloaded" and the dropbox status in the menubar is "your files are up to date". Doesn't "make available offline" mean that all files are accessible offline on my macbook? But what does "not downloaded" mean? No matter how long I waited, the "your files are up to date" status didn't change, so I finally clicked on the cloud icon in the finder to actually download the files. After that, the dropbox status didn't change even after hours of waiting in "syncing..." as shown in the screenshot below.
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suibom
3 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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Uploading slideshows from Mac
Hi. I have used Dropbox from iPad not very intensively just putting up a series of photos for family and friends now and then over the last few years. Now I have started using it with my Mac Photos. I have it up at the top of this screen and it is half evident what to do, at least enough for me to find a way. I click upload, this leads to all my Mac files, I go to Photos, and I see a layout similar to that when I open Photos in Mac. I see my albums for example. I haven't found yet a way if there is one of uploading an album directly, but I hope and one and uploaded all the photos in it, after which I as this would result in a mess if I leave it like that, collected the lot all up and put them in a folder. Perhaps this procedure can be improved but that's not my main question at the moment which is: I want to upload slideshows that I have prepared in Mac. I said " I see a layout similar to that when I open Photos in Mac" - it's similar but not identical. In Mac Photos beneath my albums in the bar on the left, I see a section called "Projects" which is where my slide shows have gone. But when I access in the way I explained above via from dropbox, this section does not appear! So I have stuff ready, and people ready to receive it, but don't know how to get it to them, I hope somebody can point me to this.
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evennewerbie
9 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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Can I upload innocent naked pictures of me as a baby-child?
I was going to send my family negatives to Hong Kong to get them scanned. They services are really cheap. They usually send scanned pictures back by uploading them to dropbox. Suddenly it came in my mind that there are also naked pictures of me as a baby and one or two as small child in that negatives. I don't want to ask the Honk Kong scanners about this because I am afraid that questions would unnecessary freak them out. The thing that came into my mind is that it's their daily business so they would probably know the best possible solution. But still I don't anyone to be in any trouble so that's why I am asking here. One more thing is that those pictures are just family innocent pictures and nothing vulgar at all but I don't know if dropbox scans every picture with their algorithm and if that's the case I don't want it unnecessary give false flags. I also don't have any intention of sharing the photos link publically at all. Thanks.
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Jonswift
4 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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Sharing Camera Uploads with Dropbox Family?
I recently saw that the new Family plan was rolled out. Does anyone know whether it's possible for multiple users to auto-upload pictures from their mobile devices to a shared Camera Uploads folder?
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ihaveyousomuch
6 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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Conflicting copies of excel file
Our small company of 3 have been using Dropbox Online for 2 years. We are all on Apple Macs, running the latest version of Mac OS, working at home Recently the Dropbos app for Mac was updated, and now we are having the following problems 1. When a file is opened, changed and saved, it is saved as a conflicted copy, even when there is only 1 person working on the file. I know this can happen when the file is open and someone else makes changes. 2. We have a master file for data, and hundreds of other files are linked to extract data from this file. When the data in the Master is updated with data for a specific excel file and saved. I then open the excel file , and the updated data is not in the file. All the older date is there, Something is not working. We are all very novice Dropbox users and have tried to trouble shoot, but nothing seems to be working. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Russell
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rdt17
3 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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Difference between shared folder and family room
My team used to each have an account subscribed to the plus plan and we shared a folder to access the files as a team. We recently decided to start a family plan and are wondering what exactly is the difference between a shared folder and a family room when subscribed to a family plan.
Jimin1
5 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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Family Plan can't move folder to Family Room and can't share this folder even if when I'm the Owner
Hello everyone, we just started a Family Share plan. I have seen the Family Room folder created and wanted to move our Family folder into it (we used pro plan in the past). While trying to do this simple task I'm getting an error that I don't have permission to do so, but I'm the owner of everything and family manager. Any thoughts on how to resolve this error?
nivg
5 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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Dropbox app vs web browser uploading files.
I was looking to clear some Disk space onmy hard drive and used the dropbox app to put a bunch of family photos on dropbox. WHen I use the web browser moving a set of images can take about 5 minuets as they upload. however when I use the app they appear almost instantly... Are those images actually being uploaded and if not where on my hard drive did they get moved to? Thanks.
Dedric001
6 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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Public links have been temporarily suspended for generating excessive traffic.
I received a message that Public links have been temporarily suspended for generating excessive traffic. Your current account bandwidth limit is 1024.00 GB and your current usage is 1369.96 GB. First of all this is unclear, daily limit, weekly, monthly - please clarify. Second this information is impossible to find, I enen reached out to the support and chatted with a DropBox rep and he could not figure this out. 3rd, i monitor my traffic I've uploaded 551GB in the last 24hr. The link was shared with one person when he started downloading he was locked out. So there is no way 1369.96GB of traffic was generated. Please explain to me whats happening.
Avior
3 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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Dropbox document sharing link too long
I’ve having issues with the Dropbox links to documents as they are too long. I’ve copied the link which is view only but the website I’m adding the link too (pimcore as an admin) won’t accept it as it’s way too at over 100 characters! Please can anyone suggest how the link can be shortened? Thank you
Trimom62
3 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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