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Updating 42 files
This information is not required, but it makes it easier for our Community members and support team to help you. Application Affected Dropbox Mac: Device MiniMacM4, 2024 Operating System/Browser (if using the web) MacOS 26.3.4 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 244.4.6580 Question or Issue Iâve had the same âUpdating 42 filesâ on my monitor tab icon for over a year. after syncing new addition, it reverts to this notice. There is nowhere I can find what or where these 42 files are to be found. With the disaster of the mixed main filer location since it was moved into the Library, where I now have two folders residing, Things are getting more complicated and less reliable, a situation that seems to go hand in hand everywhere I encounter âmore complicated.â In Preferences>Sync>Dropbox folder updates âYou are using Dropbox on File Provider. To opt out ... 1st question: how to get rid of âUpdating 42 files 2nd question; how to have a single Library folder? Do I have to compare the two folders, file at a time? Cuz that would be a real PIA and I could lose data as several people in this forum have already experienced. files copied with zero info. 3rd question. Does anybody try these new systems out in real world situations? Jay Gamel, Kenwood CA
sort photos in folders by date taken
I have organized some of my photos into folders. Within those folders, the only option to sort by date is by the modified date, which appears to be when I uploaded the photos into the folder. However, if I look at the file info on the photo, I can see the date taken or date created, which appears to be when I took the photo. It would be very helpful to be able to sort all the photos in a folder by the date taken.
Mapping sync'd folders as drive letters/mapped drives?
Hi. So we use various software that relys on linked external files to be loaded in from other drives - think video editting loading footage, or a CAD software loading in other cad files as an assembly, for example we might reference files from a specific folder on F:\ drive, as well as W:\ drive. And we're working on a d:\ drive. Currently we have been using Boxifier to sync the 3 local drives with folders/files on each between 2 locations, so that both locations can open their local file on their D:\ and the linked files on W and F still link and open correctly. Worked well till recently! With the recent Boxifier "issues" (more likely DB changes that broke it, and its taking an age to fix) I was thinking - Make 3 folders in the root of the Dropbox sync folder (whereever you have set that up), F_Drive, W_Drive and D_Drive. You can then map these drives in both locations to the matching drive letter and put your files on them. You then work/open files from the mapped drives (and never the Dropbox folder), which means any files being referenced load in from the mapped drives - but all the files are really in the Dropbox folder still and syncing as normal. Can anyone see an issue with this? Has anyone found a good solution to this issue? Someone suggested this and said it worked, but I just want to check with the wider community before we drop Boxifer and change over! Thanks, Mark
Facial recognition
Facial recognition would be a useful tool in Dropbox. My Dad recently died and I had to quickly find photos of him for the funeral. I used Google Photos for this which has a photo recognition function but I have more photos in Dropbox so would have liked to have been able to search through my Dropbox files too.
Photo date incorrect by 200 years
Has there been a fix for this issue? I am having the same issue myself. In dropbox it says date taken 200 years in the future, but inspecting the image in windows doesn't have a date taken at all in the metadata. This both shows in the Andriod app and the Website Device Andriod and Web Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Windows 11 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 464.2.2 Syncing Status up to date Question or Issue
It's not ideal not being able to search for content using an exact phrase in Dropbox.
Dropbox used to offer the ability to search for an exact phrase. It no longer offers this. It removed it and replaced it with useless garbage. This is completely ridiculous. Everyone should complain and move to another cloud storage service. Their responses have been equally useless. Dropbox should be embarrassed for being 20 years behind the times. FIX YOUR PRODUCT!
