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748 TopicsOpen dropbox file/folder links open on desktop
Hi there. Love Dropbox. I moved our whole team to it from Google Drive much to all of our delight. The one hiccup that keeps coming up (was also an issue with Drive, but would be a game changing new feature from DB) is sharing links. Our team uses the desktop app to work with files directly in finder, but we share links to files and folders on slack and in email, etc... Right now we click a link, it opens the browser as expected, we find the file path in browser and then follow that path in finder. That seems like an awful lot of work when we have a direct connection between our finder and dropbox in the app. Perhaps the website could provide a link that connects to the desktop app, opening the folder/file in finder or windows explorer. Seems like a reasonable option to me, but what do others think?240Views1like4CommentsLarger folder refuse to become available offline on my PC.
Hi all, I have a Dropbox Plus account and wish to save files for offline access. I can do this by toggling Offline Access in Preferences with some folders but for the larger folders Dropbox refuses to let the files download and all is only available online. There is plenty of storage on my PC or external drives that I have tried with. Does Dropbox have a limit on folder size that it will sync like this? Any tips as to what I am doing wrong? /steve53Views0likes4CommentsFull Local Backup to an External Drive
I would like to be able to create a full local backup of my Dropbox without needing to sync all files to my computerâs internal storage. Right now, my Dropbox is larger than the available space on my computer, so I canât keep everything synced locally. Because of this, I donât have a reliable way to back up all of my files to a physical drive for long-term safety or peace of mind (unless I do it in batches and that takes a long time. It would be extremely helpful to be able to connect an external hard drive and sync my entire Dropbox directly to that drive, without first downloading/syncing everything to my computer. Ideally, this would work as a one-way backup (Dropbox to external drive), clearly labeled as a backup destination, so thereâs no risk of accidentally overwriting files. Having a native way to back up all Dropbox content to an external drive would significantly improve data safety and flexibility, especially for users with large accounts. This would be especially valuable for long-time Dropbox users with large libraries who want a simple, reliable backup solution without third-party tools.Solved74Views0likes2CommentsText highlighting not visible when exporting to Word
When I highlight text in a Paper document in my browser and then export it to MS Word, the highlighting gets lost. Bold, italics, underlined instead are all working as expected and are retained. I tried a few tips, but none of them worked: - copying text from the browser and pasting into the Word doc directly - using incognito mode - viewing the Word document online or in the desktop app makes no difference either - exporting to pdf first and then converting to Word doc (pdf has highlights but they get misplaced when converting to Word) Devices: Macbook Air (M4), Sequoia 26.2, tried both on Firefox(146.0.1) and Safari(Version 26.2 (21623.1.14.11.9)). Dropbox Version is 239.3.8100 but as I use the browser it might not matter. Dell Pro 13 Plus Windows 11 Enterprise (24H2) Edge Browser (143.0.3650.96)84Views0likes3CommentsErr_connection_refused error on multiple web browsers
Canât seem to connect to Dropbox at all using multiple different browsers and in private /incognito mode. Keeps saying refuses to connect. Have added Dropbox.com to trusted sites in settings, uninstalled and reinstalled the Dropbox program and browsers. Have also made sure no proxy settings are active along with making sure the program is allowed access. NOTHING WORKS!!!Solved35KViews1like65CommentsUnexpectedly syncing an enormous amount of files and constant crashing
TL;DR - Many files seem to be indexing for no reason, some seem to be downloading locally, dropbox app is crashing every 5 minutes, I've tried most of the troubleshooting techniques, and have no solution for what I'm facing here. For the past week or so, Dropbox has been indexing in excess of 20,000 files without any user input (and seems to be downloading some files without any instruction or input from me). It has also been unexpectedly crashing within a few minutes of starting up. I have tried just about every troubleshooting option in the book: - Advanced Reinstall + Selective Sync (did not fix anything, waste of time) - Fix Hardlinks / Permissions (did not fix anything) - Relinking Account (did not fix anything, although it did seem to go through all of my files and end up getting stuck again) - Selective Sync (which does not work at all) - Removing Some Files that were recently added (did not fix anything, still had the same amount of files indexing/syncing) - Selecting "Online Only" for the whole Dropbox folder as some files seem to be downloading for no reason at all (didn't seem to work, it did seem to make the problem worse if anything) What I am currently doing: - Checking the Windows Indexing settings to see if this will fix/subdue the issue I am yet to try: - Relinking Account in conjunction with Selective Sync and seeing if that does anything, but I am reluctant to try this again if it will just get stuck. The number of files being indexed seems to vary between 19,000 and 23,000, however, this figure has been going up recently. Every single file is showing the "blue sync icon", so finding the troublesome files are impossible at this stage, and it has been very stable with around 4 million files, so not sure what has triggered this to happen. I would usually upload around 500GB at a time, and the Dropbox app would take it like a champ and just get the job done, now, however, it doesn't seem to like anything I do with it. What has happened on my PC recently: - I had placed a small batch of files into my Dropbox folder (around 120GB or so, I am reluctant to delete my entire Dropbox directory and start again in fear of unsynced files.) [I have taken out some of these files and this did not seem to fix anything.] - Windows Updates I had a similar issue around a month ago, and somehow happened to fix it by taking files out that I had recently placed inside the Dropbox folder. It seems as though now, this solution does not seem to fix anything. I understand that I have some 4.2 million files in my Dropbox, and I have been trying to selective sync to reduce this amount to improve performance, however, it seems to be an impossible loop of crashing and indexing/syncing. I have a fairly high-powered system so I expect this indexing to be completed rather quickly, however, it has been doing this and crashing for the past 5+ days or so. Please help! (I have redacted personal information)Solved11KViews3likes12CommentsChange settings so my Downloads are not put in Dropbox
I've noticed that whenever I download files for my Silhouette they are automatically placed with my Dropbox files. How do I keep this from happening? I use the free version of Dropbox for a project I'm working on and want to keep work and personal files separate. Thanks in advance for your help. SBSolved11KViews0likes11CommentsDownloading photos from Dropbox
I noticed that when you select ONE photo it allows you to "save as" but is there a feature where you can select all photos at one time? I want all my photos on my computer but I can't figure out how to sync dropbox to download to my computer OR how to select all photos so i can "save as" all of them. If not I will be sitting here checking off over 2000 photos. that will take all day.... please let me know if there is an easier waySolved19KViews3likes7CommentsAutomatically downloading files using the app, how to do this?
Hi foks, I've been using Dropbox for about ten years to transfer many small documents easily between my home and work computers, both Macs. After the recent update I've noticed that I have to manually download documents. Does anyone know how to change back so that they download automatically? Here's a screenshot of the little clouds I have to click to download the documents. Thanks!Solved5.2KViews0likes3Comments"Smart" sync keeps downloading online-only files
I am growing increasingly frustrated with this so called "smart sync" feature Dropbox has recently introduced (or rather forced upon me). I have a number of files I've brought over to Dropbox using the finder on my Mac, that I have then marked as online only, in hopes that it would upload the files and then remove them from my local storage, which is limited. However Dropbox keeps randomly re-downloading the files to my system even after telling it that I want the files to be online only. This feature is supposed to "save hard disk space", which it does seem to do temporarily before it just starts downoading things again. It seems as though the only safe way to keep files from my drive is the old fashioned selective sync from preferences, but this is a backward way of working, especially when I want to have the folder show up on my local drive so I can bring files into it, but I may want those files to only live online. Has anyone found a solution to this abnormal behaviour (that, once again I might add, was forced on us as justification to increase the price of the paid service)?20KViews15likes77Comments