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Impossible to Restore an External Drive Backup
Dropbox is an absolute joke! If you back up an external drive and that drive crashes, congratulations â youâve just discovered that Dropbox âBackupâ is basically useless. You cannot restore the backup to a new drive. Let that sink in. A backup service that canât restore to new hardware... Yeah, funny, I know. Your only option? Crawl to the web interface like itâs 2005 and manually download your own data. And it gets worse: you canât even download large folders. Try it and youâll be slapped with âtoo many filesâ or ZIP limit errors. So instead of restoring a drive, youâre forced to download a few folders at a time, over and over, for thousands of folders. Absolute insanity. - Easy for Dropbox support clowns to say, just do it in small batches... Right. You do understand that some of your clients have subfolder within subfolders where some of those folders have large volumes of data? Oh, duh, just download one folder at a time. OK Dropbox Support Hero, how do I reliably rebuild all this manual intervention without accidentally losing valuable data? Come on guys! You should have a restore drive option that mirrors the data on your useless server with the new drive. Dropbox Backup is not a backup service â itâs a data hostage situation. Itâs fine for a couple of documents, but if you trust it with real data, youâre asking for pain. I paid for 2TB and got a masterclass in how not to design a backup product. If you value your time, your sanity, or your data: stay far away from Dropbox Our company has almost 40 team members, we are ALL moving to Google Drive the moment our paid subscriptions end.Nothing gets copied to the clipboard after clicking "Copy link" on Linux.
Application Affected Dropbox Device Dell Inspiron 5482 Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Fedora Workstation 43 running Gnome on Wayland. Dropbox App Version (if using the app) (241.4.4853 - found in app settings or About section) Question or IssueThe question is about the context menu in Files. When I click on the Dropbox item in the context menu and choose "Copy link" nothing ends up in the clipboard. The only workaround I found is to go the dropbox web interface and copy the link from there.My files aren't syncing. Is my app connected to the right account?
I am a new employee to a company. The previous employee had a dropbox acct on the same computer that I use, however my files are not syncing with the other team members for the company. When I open preferences below is the dropbox folder location which is that of the previous employee. How can I resolve this issue?
Dropbox apt infrastructure relying on unsecure SHA1
When one update its software list with apt on Debian Trixie at least, he gets this error: Err:13 http://linux.dropbox.com/debian sid InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Signing key on 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E is not bound: No binding signature at time 2026-01-16T19:39:14Z because: Policy rejected non-revocation signature (PositiveCertification) requiring second pre-image resistance because: SHA1 is not considered secure since 2026-02-01T00:00:00Z (...) Warning: OpenPGP signature verification failed: http://linux.dropbox.com/debian sid InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Signing key on 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E is not bound: No binding signature at time 2026-01-16T19:39:14Z because: Policy rejected non-revocation signature (PositiveCertification) requiring second pre-image resistance because: SHA1 is not considered secure since 2026-02-01T00:00:00Z Error: The repository 'http://linux.dropbox.com/debian sid InRelease' is not signed. Notice: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. Notice: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. Notice: Some sources can be modernized. Run 'apt modernize-sources' to do so. This issue was already reported in an unrelated apt issue thread (now closed for replies) in https://www.dropboxforum.com/discussions/101001016/openpgp-signature-verification-failed-with-debian-trixie-/835761/replies/842767 by steinarbâ Looks like you're signing with SHA1 and that will be forbidden by debian APT policy in a year from now. at which it was replied that Debian Trixie is not officially supported... But the support tells Ubuntu 64 bits : 18.04 ou version ultĂ©rieure please see the process to switch to SHA256 in (there might be better options since because this process is from 2016): https://github.com/mxe/mxe-apt/issues/2 and this page tells that the support for SHA1 was removed in Ubuntu in release 16.04 and https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Apt/Sha1Removal tells that dropbox switched to SHA256 long ago. I believe that recently one of your admin switched back your apt repository signing to SHA1 which is broken on Debian Trixie but also on all Ubuntu above 16.04 so this bug lies in your "offical support". Cheers
Desktop app shows sync issues about permissions but all settings are correct
Device (Mac Sudio Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Mac OS 26.2 Tahoe Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 241.4.4853 Syncing Status (Up to date) Question or Issue I am getting sync issues for several files (see message) asking for "permissions," which all permissions in system settings are already given, so I am not sure what they are asking for or how to give it to them.
My account is full and the desktop app is stuck syncing, so I can't delete any more files
I decided to send a large number of photos and videos to Dropbox to back them up. Doing so caused me to exceed the 2 GB limit on my basic plan. Since then, I have been trying to delete enough photos and videos to stay under the 2 GB so as not to have to pay a subscription price for an advanced plan. However, when I hover on the Dropbox icon on the top menu bar of my MacMini M4 computer, it says "Dropbox 241.4.4795" and next line "Uploading 1,343 files..." It has been stuck on that number for weeks now and I have tried to use ChatGPT to get it syncing again but to no avail. I have tried the following: Pause and Resume, View Sync Issues (it says that I don't have any sync issues), I have given Dropbox Full Disk Access, re-indexing safely by quitting Dropbox - restarting the Mac and opening Dropbox, and made sure that Photos and Preview were off. ChatGPT then suggests renaming the local Dropbox folder then opening Dropbox in which case it will create a fresh folder and reconcile deletes from the cloud correctly. I didn't do this last step since I decided to contact you. If I can't get this fixed, I'm in a forever do-loop of exceeding the basic limit and constantly receiving notices that I am above the limit. Any help that you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
