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How to safely remove shared folder from hard drive, owned by a student who graduated and left?
I am a professor at University of Florida (I need to use my personal email here, it never worked with UF email). All my graduate students and I all use Dropbox. Each student has a project folder shared with me, so that when they graduate I have access to the files for future use. Now, if a new student comes, and I pass the previous student computer to him/her, the project folder is still in the computer. How can we safely remove that shared folder from the hard drive and keep them on the web (and my computer)? The old student UF account is disabled so the files cannot be made online only by the old student (and he left anyways). I can access the folder on that pc with my UF account. I can delete the folders manually, which should be safe since in my UF account my dropbox folder is synced, not theirs. But would would happen if the old student decides to come back to work for me as a post doc (or it was a master student who wanna work as a Phd student) some time in the future, their UF account is reactivated, and the PC is given back to them? would the project folder be lost? Dropbox Plan ( Enterprise) Device (Dell) Operating System/Browser (if using the web) (Windows 11.)
Do online-only files count toward the 300k soft limit of the desktop app syncing?
If I make online only (see screenshot below) 20k files located in a folder, so that it is going to be indexable in windows searches and fast to be found, do those 20k files really count toward the limit of 300k sync files? Under large-deployments dropbox help I found that they say "used with sync", but it is unclear what "used with sync" means, please clarify : Users shouldn't sync more than 300,000 files. This includes online-only files used with sync. LG gram Operating System/Browser (if using the web) (Windows 11) Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 232.4.5926
How can I see all files in Windows explorer without having to download all content first?
I am using desktop application on windows 10 and have Dropbox Family plan So far I have seen that I had to download all my content, then right click on it to make it offline to see the file and folder listing How can i see all the files and folders in windows explorer without having to download all content first.
Old version of files overwriting the latest version on the cloud
Hello community, We are looking for assistance on probable causes and preventive measures to take place following an incident with one of our computers, where the files present in Dropbox folder of the local PC were overwritten to the Dropbox online ( cloud ). Sometime last month, one of the users who works in our team switched on a PC assigned to him after a long duration of more than one month. What happened then was, as soon as the PC got connected to the internet, files and folders present in the local Dropbox folder got written, or synced to the files in the cloud. For a few files that already existed, the 'conflicted copies' have been created with same mentioned in the filename along with a date stamp. But for other files and folders, it has been overwritten and in some cases, the folders which were not even present in the Dropbox cloud, have been uploaded to the cloud. Upon doing net search, we are under the impression that this is not normal behaviour, and Dropbox is designed to not overwrite older versions from local, if present, to the newer or latest version already in the cloud. We require information on (1) Probable causes and (2) Prevention steps. Specifications as below: Dropbox version at the time of incident : Probably 229.4.5197 Windows version and build : Windows 10 Pro (10.0.19044.1741.VER2009 21H2) Sync type: Selective sync Dropbox plan: Free plan for the user, who connected to a Paid ( Professional ) Dropbox Thank you