Questions tagged [dropbox]
Cross-platform file syncing program for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and various mobile devices.
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Windows explorer very slow unless I pause Dropbox
Windows explorer is very slow unless I pause Dropbox. Like right click takes 10 second to show a list of action. After I pause Dropbox, it gets superfast. Any way to solve this? What if I set somehow ...
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How to bulk prioritize Folder Syncing in Dropbox on OSX
I'm using Dropbox on a MacBook to sync folders with another user. Often, I need to quickly prioritize syncing a specific folder, but currently, I can only select "Sync Next" for individual ...
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Dropbox repeatedly keeps popping up "Delete...other items for everyone?" after I delete dropbox folder mounted on Windows 10
I have my dropbox account "mounted" on my Windows 10 PC.
It appears in File Explorer on the left as folder: Dropbox
When I open this and delete a folder with lots of items, dropbox then ...
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Boxcryptor stopped working, how do I access the encrypted files on OnDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive?
I have been using Boxcryptor for client side encryption of files stored in the cloud for a few years now.
They have been bought up by dropbox and the software stopped working today.
How do I access my ...
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Dropbox Client not syncing due to HTTPS inspection
Since my workplace introduced HTTPS traffic inspection as a security measure, the Dropbox client on my Ubuntu machine doesn't synchronize anymore. It doesn't, however, display an error message, ...
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How to exclude a specific file from Dropbox sync
A great Dropbox file exclusion trick no longer seems to work.
My Thunderbird profile is in Dropbox, mainly because I have years of historical email in the locally stored "Local Folders", so ...
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Dropbox synch, 1 file missing, how identify the file?
I just synched Drobox between my old Windows 10 laptop (the source) and my new Window 11 desktop (the target). I then did a Windows Properties on the Dropbox folder on both machines.
On the source:
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migrating from dropbox to onedrive
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We are migrating files from dropbox to onedrive. We download the top-level parent folders from dropbox and upload to onedrive. Those parent folders have many levels of subfolders and so on, so ...
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Cannot Zip folder that is too deep in subfolders
I am unable to zip a folder if the folder is too deep in subfolders. My company uses Dropbox, so we have a lot of folders in folders. For example, a path to a folder might look like this:
C:\Users\...
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Is there a way to place a symbolic link in Volumes on Mac that won't be deleted when the machine reboots?
I use Dropbox in a newspaper publishing environment.
While in the office I mount a share from my Synology NAS that shares my Dropbox content via CloudSync.
For a remote computer, I use the Mac Dropbox ...
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filesystem on Linux for SD card for Dropbox sync
I have a super small drive on my ultraportable lenovo 100s. I want to sync several gb of stuff from my dropbox onto it, so I have equipped it with a western digital purple sd card.
I plan to use that ...
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When using a PowerPoint file located on dropbox, the hyperlink sometimes will give error 'Cannot open the specified file'
We have a number of PowerPoint files that our users use on Dropbox that have a number of hyperlinks in them that link to PDF files that reside in the same file as the PPT file is.
Most of the time, ...
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Remove-Appxpackage stuck
Windows 11, trying to uninstall preinstalled Dropbox (DropboxOEM) in Elevated PowerShell session:
Get-AppxPackage -All *dropbox* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers
It gets stuck.
When I close the running ...
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Why Does 7zip give the error that certain files inside a zip downloaded from Dropbox are corrupted when they clearly are not?
My wife has a ton of data that she has worked on over the course of a decade saved on Dropbox, and we are trying to back this up to a local external drive so that we have two copies. I've downloaded ...
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Dropbox doesn't play well with WSL SVN?
Got a bit of an odd setup, perhaps.
I have put local checkouts of my SVN repository in Dropbox folders (Windows 11 machine).
So basically at any machine I work, I have the last edits whether they've ...
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