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Dropbox Mac Beta: Green Circles are gone - everything has the cloud symbol
I am assuming work is being done in the background, but as of a few days ago, I no longer have green circles for downloaded (available offline) files. Everything has a cloud symbol (that symbol doesn't even exist in the online documentation) but seems to be available offline. I am also getting lots of sync errors - but my files appear to be still on my computer (where I need them). And yesterday the DROPBOX icon disappeared from my sidebar (Locations). Only to show up again hours later. Strange. What is going on? These sync irregularities seem to be quite substantial. Syncing files is what Dropbox is all about. I am a little surprised this beta version was even released to the public. When I joined the beta, the email I got from dropbox made it sound like the final release was imminent.
Need to see creation date of backups loaded to Dropbox
I am using Dropbox as a secondary backup for customer files from my server. If a customer needs me to restore their data from a particular date I have to locate the files they want by the backup date of file . I just noticed Dropbox is changing all my file dates to the date I uploaded them from my server to Dropbox. I cannot figure out how to see the creation date of the files anymore. This makes them unusable to me as backups since I have no idea what date the backups are for All the files have a 6/15/23 date now so if I need to restore files from 5/1/23 I can't figure out a way to do that. Please advise.
External collaborators list got removed from admin console 'members' tab
Dropbox recently removed External Collaborators tab from Admin Console > Members menu. This was a fast and easy dashboard to see all external collaborators and each shared resource they have access to. Reached out to support and now only option to review external collaborators seems to be through the clunky Admin Console > Security > External Sharing menu. The old External Collaborators tab in the Members menu provided much better security auditing for team admins. Please bring the original External Collaborators dashboard back to the Members menu.
Feedback regarding Dropbox Backup UX on Windows 10
Dropbox is buggy on WINDOWS 10 Desktop. Same on diferent computers. ALL my external drives are NTFS USB 3 or 3.2. 100% Compatible. WOrks perfect on any other cloud service. All disc is Professional (up to date). new LaCie, new Seagate, etc. And all only randomly appeared in "Manage backups". So please forward to developers: 1.) external devices visibility/detection is TERRIBLE. Like 1 random function. Need MUCH more intuitive. UX is TERRIBLE. 2.) Problem 2.: "only 1 disc of internaldisc is visible". This limitation is TERRIBLE too. I have very important files on internal SATA_lll drives, not just on C:. This limitation is useless. 3.) Why is this window NOT resizable? I cannot see the full folder / file names. it is annoying. this small size, we will scroll in fullscreen, WITHOUT ANY LIMITATIONs again. Please STOP OVER LIMITATIONS.
