r/DropboxOfficial

I've recently switched my Windows laptop to a Macbook running on Tahoe 26.5, File provider version for Dropbox.

I'm used to sync my Dropbox on an external SSD. I've done so on the Macbook, but I've encountered many problems :

- After long sleep, MacOS disconnects the SSD incorrectly (and I don't have the setting in battery to avoid this).I get the mount was not ejected correctly alert at wake up. Doing so broke features and often re-indexes everything. Offline files then do not open.

- Many left click option are hidden, even if I go to edit Dropbox right click action. Copy link for example, is greyed out and often missing.

- The syncing stays bugged on "Syncing...." after indexing. Some folder open but nothing loads inside.

- Restarting the PC also breaks everything. Goes into indexing again or Syncing... loop.

- When everything works fine, (after re-installl, or logout + advanced relink), many features finish by broking after a couple hours (Dropbox right click options, sync online - offline).

As I'm kinda new to the MAcOS world, maybe I'm missing a simple setting or something dumb.

How can I fix this? Is the only option is to put Dropbox on internal storage and only use SSD for cache and other often used files?

So. Here's my situation. I want people to be able to upload a form into my Dropbox. I created, through Dropbox, a link that when clicked opens a window for the file to be dragged and dropped. When I click the link [https://www.dropbox.com/request/81mt5iu5udt01vp52z5r ] from the txt file I store it own, but not on the form I installed it on - an Acrobat 7 pdf.

link causing problem

How do I fix this?

Edit: So, don't tell me but it works from here. I'm flummoxed. Any help is welcomed.

EDIT: I converted it into a newer Acrobat version and all is good.

Hi all.

I've searched for an answer to this but can't find one. It sounds as though there are two versions of Dropbox Backup. The old one allows only limited folders to be backed up, whereas the new one allows any files to be included. I seem to be on the old version as when I go to Backup in the Windows Desktop App it offers me only Desktop, Documents and Downloads, and then a list under +More.

I have the individual 2TB Plus account. As far as I can see I should be able to use the new version but I can't see how to get it.

Can anyone please help?

I noticed some changes to the interface of the app recently that are making it more difficult / clunky to use, and was wondering if this was a permanent change that’s been rolled out for everyone?

Namely, every folder and file now has text under it with the date that it was uploaded / modified, and it adds a lot of extra text to the screen when trying to browse through things.

I did some googling but I haven’t seen this change mentioned anywhere, so I was just curious what’s going on.

Hi, I'm new to nix. I'm trying to set up Dropbox. I tried services.dropbox.enable = true;. I see that dropbox command is now actually dropbox-cli. systemctl --user status dropbox shows it's running with success, but dropbox status says Dropbox isn't running!. There's no tray icon visible but honestly I don't know if my tray works. (wayland, niri WM, waybar)

I have a very large amount of photos and videos. Finding something is like looking for a needle in a haystack. How can I use dropbox to index photos and videos by location, date/time, objects, faces (ideally spectific people), and speech voiced in videos?

I'm hoping to enter a search for something like "green cats in Italy in September 2023" and get all pictures that match that and all videos that either match that in a frame or was spoken in voice on the video.

If dropbox cannot provide all of that then how much of that can it provide and at what cost? How can I trial it?

I'm using the latest version of MacOS and my experience moving from Dropbox to Google Drive has been so awful that I'm starting to wonder if I'm missing something. If anyone has solutions to any of the following issue please let me know:

- My Drive files will occasionally just refuse load within Finder for unknown reasons. It just endlessly pinwheels when I try to view any of my Drive folders sometimes and I have to restart Drive to fix this.

- Drive is AWFUL for uploading large video files via Finder. If I add several large video files instead of adding one at a time, Drive will try to upload about 10 of these at the same time which ultimately results in filed uploads or waiting like a week. There's no way of prioritising how many files upload at one time, or which files upload first when multiple are uploading.

- There's no way of cancelling a file upload once it's in progress?? which is unbelievably infuriating. This is especially bad with large files because even if I locally delete the file that's mid-upload to cancel the upload, Drive keeps that file stored within its hidden cache files on MacOS. So after the original file is deleted Drive continues to upload the hidden cache file and take up local storage despite the fact I've deleted the file locally from a user perspective (This is a fundamental design failure as far as I'm concerned).

- I've had an error report pop-up from Drive that some uploads have failed (no specific reason detailed on the pop-up) which moves the files onto my desktop. But then later when I've checked on Drive the files have in fact uploaded, so Drive has just had duplicated some files and put them on my desktop for no particular reason.

- I have the "Stream Files" setting enabled as my preferred choice but I have made certain folders available offline. These offline files seem to automatically become online-only again for some unspecified reason, which has absolutely screwed me a few times already. I can't see any setting to prevent this from happening automatically, Drive seems to be automating this and I can't see a disclosure of the conditions under which it happens. I want to control what happens with my important files, I don't want Drive automating my manually selected offline files.

- Pausing uploads is just a simple "On/Off" toggle. There doesn't seem to be any way of scheduling a time for uploads to restart automatically (e.g. un-pause uploads after one hour).

- There's no upload speed indicator or "Estimated time remaining" indicator for file uploads which is not helpful.

If I cancel dropbox now, do I still have access to everything I paid for until my subscription time is up? Or do I lose access right away?