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Exciting news â weâve launched the new Sync & Storage Dashboard in the Dropbox desktop app!
This dashboard makes it easier than ever to keep your files organized and your computer running smoothly. With just a click, you can: Get a real-time view of your sync status Quickly spot and resolve any syncing issues Monitor and manage how much disk space your Dropbox files are using Adjust your selective sync and storage preferences To open the dashboard, click the Dropbox icon in your taskbar (Windows) or menu bar (Mac), then select your avatar and choose Sync & storage. Weâre excited for you to try it out! Please let us know your thoughts and how we can make it even better!
Dropbox Smart Sync Icons Missing on Windows 10 - SOLVED
After spending almost an entire week with Dropbox tech support, uninstalling, re-installing, cleaning registries, running command scripts, MULTIPLE TIMES... We were getting nowhere. So, I did some serious research on the web looking for ways to locate and fix Windows Right-Click "Context Menus". I found a utility called ShellExView by Nirsoft. Which pointed to another page ( fix-slow-right-click-crashes-shell-extensions ) with some more explanation on how to use it. Apparently, the problem was that, for some strange reason, as you can see in the screenshot below, the Dropbox âContextMenuHandler Classâ was marked as âDisabledâ. I simply did a Right-Clickover it, and selected to âEnable selected itemsâ. Then re-started Explorer using ShellExView's Ctrl+E option to restart the Windows shell. Please NOTE... Restarting the Explorer shell is an essential step. This should NOT be skipped. And⊠VOILA!!! After a few seconds... ALL of the Dropbox Context Menu items magically now appear!!! For FOLDERS, it shows like this: And for FILES, it looks like this: Hope this helps! All the best, JacobTips for remote working with Dropbox
At the moment, people and teams are adjusting to the realities of a distributed workforce at a whole new scale. We want to share some tips to help make the transition as seamless as possible and ensure you stay connected and keep work moving. Get Syncing The first step in preparing yourself for remote working is to store everything you need in the cloud. That way, you and your team can access all the materials needed to keep projects moving. Sync files across all your devices and platforms. To start, sign in to your Dropbox account on each device, then add your files and folders to the Dropbox folder on your computer, phone, or tablet. The latest version of all your files and folders will be synced automatically and available on all your devices, so you wonât need to email updated versions to your team. The green checkmark lets you know all your important files are completely synced. Get offline access on all your devices. What happens if your WiFi or mobile signal drops and you canât get online? No worries. Locally synchronized folders and files are available on the desktop app when you are offline. Once you get reconnected, Dropbox will automatically sync your folders and files with any changes you made. Upload photos and scan documents with the Dropbox mobile app With the Dropbox mobile app, you can scan documents and upload phots taken with your phone into the Dropbox folder of your choice. Dropbox Professional and Business users can even search for text within their scans, thanks to optical character recognition (OCR). Save space on your hard drive. With Dropbox, you can move files and folders to online-only, so you can work without worrying about filling up your hard drive. Theyâll still be visible and accessible from your desktop, just a click awayâopen a file and it will automatically sync to your hard drive. Want more tips on getting the most value from Dropbox when youâre working from home? Check out How Dropbox can support distributed work.
What you need to know about storing and backing up your photos with Dropbox
We see a lot of questions about storing, sharing and backing up your photos on Dropbox so here are some tips to make that as easy as possible! Back up photos automatically to your Dropbox account You know we love an automatic process, so whether itâs your camera roll photos, your screenshots or your document scans, your cloud photos are some of the most important files you have. In fact our own Emmet told us about a time when he almost lost his photos due to a tech malfunction - âOne of my old hard drives of photos got corrupted several years ago. This was almost a year of photos. Thankfully, lot of these had been saved to my Dropbox account automatically, and this was important as a couple who I was friends with wanted a high definition photo of them from the first night they went out together, and I was only able to share it on their wedding day because it was saved on Dropbox.â Keeping full-resolution copies backed up with online photo storage means you can access them anytime, and you know there is a safe and secure copy in the cloud. Here are just a few ways Dropbox can keep your photos safe: Camera uploads: Once you turn this on, photos from your phone or tablet will be automatically backed up to Dropbox. Or in our desktop app, photos will be copied from cameras, memory cards, or mobile devices whenever you connect one to your computer. Screenshot backups: You can set up our desktop app to automatically move screenshot images to your Dropbox, or have mobile device screenshots backed up using camera uploads. Document scanning: The native/built-in scan functionality in the Dropbox mobile app lets you use your phoneâs camera to scan and make digital backups of receipts, whiteboards, and paper documents. Share your photos with links, shared folders and control access Storing your photos is great, but chances are you will want to share some - whether itâs with family members, teammates or the expense team at work. There are a few ways you can do that, and you can manage the access with a few clicks as well. Shared links: You can easily create a link to share any file or folder in your Dropbox. Copy and paste your link into an email, text message, or chat, to share with anyoneâeven if they donât have a Dropbox account. Access control: Keep your photos in the right hands by adding password protection, expiration dates, and sign-in requirements to your shared links. Shared folders: Want to collect your photos and someone elseâs in the same place? Share files back and forth by inviting other people to sync a folder between your account and theirs. Organize your photos: Saving and sharing your photos can be great but itâs no use if you canât find the one your looking for, so organizing and viewing your photos is essential too! Here are some tips on how to do that, and if thatâs not enough you can see how our own Eliene organizes her photos. Photo browsing: View and browse all of your photos and videos from the Photos tab in our mobile app or on the web. Image previews: View over 35 image file types from dropbox.com or our mobile app. You can preview common files like JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and GIF; app-specific types like Photoshop and Illustrator; raw formats like CR2, DCR, and DNG; and even iOS HEIC photos. Best of all, thereâs no need for special photo software. Image tagging: Find your photos fast by adding searchable hashtags to individual photos or an entire folder. How do you manage your photos with Dropbox? Share your tips in the comments below, or if you have any questions you, we can answer those too!
