You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
I can't move my Dropbox folder on to an external hard drive; I get the error it's not compatible.
Just bought (Nov 2024) a 14TB Seagate External drive with the intention of moving my Dropbox folder off my PC's C: drive over to the external drive. When I followed the method to do this per the Dropbox website I got a warning message that the Seagate was not compatible with Dropbox. I checked the Seagate's properties and it says the file system is exFAT. What should I do? Any help appreciated. Thank You.Can you selectively sync only selected folders and leave the other folders alone?
Can you change Dropbox to Selectively sync only selected folders AND a switch to give an option to leave the other folders alone, still on the local PC under folder Dropbox. At present unticked folders in Selective sync are DELETED locally. The reason for this request is to reduce computer CPU & memory use which is excessive if are syncing 1.5Tb and 1,000s of files. I need all folders present all the time and a fast computer without having to disable Antivirus.
Get an option to prioritize syncing for folders on the desktop app.
Dropbox currently has an option to prioritize which files to sync first. I'd like to extend that to provide the same functionality for selected folders. This will be particularly helpful in migrating to new equipment but also when changing a large amount of content. Can do?
Home destroyed in LA fires, need help picking a plan to log purchases
Hi, I have to coordinate among 3 total family members the sharing of storage. Basically, we have iPhones and MacBooks. Our house was just destroyed by fire. I am looking for an efficient way to track our purchases for goods and services for eventual reimbursement by our insurance company. Example: I buy clothing, my wife buys a jacket, my daughter buys a sweater. Receipts of all of these separate purchases could be uploaded to various Dropbox folders so that we could track them by category and eventually put them into an accounting document for submission to the insurance company. What dropbox account would work the most efficiently and easily for this type of family coordination and sharing? Any other organizational ideas for managing the data for sharing with the insurance company would be greatly appreciated.
I can't sync folders to my computer after my hard drive crashed
My hard drive containing the folders mapped to my local drive was broken, so I reinstalled Dropbox on another hard drive on my computer. But when I wanted to remap the folders to the local file explorer, there was a problem. Specifically, I wanted to map the folders to the local drive and save the data to the cloud, but I couldn't do it. I could only download the data to the local hard drive to see the folders saved in the cloud in the local file explorer; that is, I couldn't "save data only to the cloud" when I right-clicked my mouse. I use a Windows 10 laptop, and my email account is in a family group.Dropped a file into my Dropbox folder and don't know how to get it out
I have a project ive been working on for a while, and i decided to drag and drop it into my dropbox folder through my file explorer window. But then i realized the file size was multiple gb and i couldnt take it out of dropbox! how do i undo this?? pls help!
The desktop app UI on Linux looks old and there's no option to move the Dropbox folder.
I recently switched to Linux from Windows and was looking to have my Dropbox accessible on my desktop. I installed the app direct from the website, and the app looks like its from the early 2000's. I also like to keep a copy of my files offline, through an external desktop expansion, that is synced with the cloud. However, there is no ability (on Linux) to be able to select the sync destination on your computer to be on a different drive than your original one. The Linux version of Dropbox desperately needs to be updated with modern and basic functionality
Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync
Please please please can you add a feature that allows folders to be excluded from the Dropbox account (on windows and mac). For sure I'm not the first person to request this, but I'm yet to find a good explanation of why it's not there. A quick google search reveals loads of people also looking for the same feature. I really like the workflow I have with dropbox, but it's getting to the point where I might switch providers in order to allow better selective sync. I've seen hackish solutions using selective sync, but it would be great if this could be done in one of the following ways: - global pattern matching eg "node_modules" - a marker file in the directory like .dropboxignore - a simple right click context menu "Ignore this folder" Other than that, keep up the good work. Cheers. Tom
