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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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I accidentally added ~/Downloads to Dropbox, then symlink from ~/Downloads can't be removed?
As the title said, I accidentally added ~/Downloads to Dropbox, then I think Dropbox symlinked the ~/Downloads folder to the corresponding Dropbox folder.
❯ ls -l
total 648
drwx------@ 5 anthony ...
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Easy recursive "unlock" for files in macOS? (or: Dropbox locks files when copying them, how to stop it?)
Background:
Our company uses Dropbox for Business (DB4B) for file sharing and there are company-wide folders that are shared read-only to groups of users that contain documents and other files they ...
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"Renaming" Dropbox (Personal) folder as a plain Dropbox folder? Looking for smylink command on all OS
Dropbox's desktop client will create two separate Dropbox folders if one uses a linked personal account with an enterprise account (in my case, this is a Dropbox account within an institution's own ...
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Suggestions for syncing shared Dropbox folder to local folder
First question here so let me know if it does not belong here.
I use Dropbox for sharing files with collaborators on some projects. When working on the project, I prefer to do it in a local folder. ...
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Mac OSX Can't Set Dropbox Folder to Root Directory
I want to have my dropbox folder be at the root directory level and I have had no success finding out why it won't. I tried to fix permissions (Can't get dropbox to move to Root on OSX?) and that ...
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Restoring orphaned folders after update to macOS High Sierra
In order to back up my computer with Dropbox, my Desktop, Documents, Development, etc... folders are stored directly in my Dropbox folder (because Dropbox doesn't like symbolic links) and I replaced ...
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Remove the Dropbox + Word integration
Dropbox has been updated and now it shows a new integration with the Word windows, it adds an icon on the side of the document.
Unfortunately this makes the Word 2011 windows flicker sometimes, and ...
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Replace all illegal characters from folders, subfolders, and files in my Dropbox folder
Our office uses dropbox on Macs to organize our design projects. For several years, many of these files and folders were being saved with characters that are illegal on Windows OS. We have some ...
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How do I change the folder where Dropbox saves my screenshots?
By default, Dropbox saves screenshots in ~/Dropbox/Screenshots.
How do I change the folder where these screenshots are saved?
I'm running macOS:
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: ...
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Removing ._ Files from Non-Mac OS File System In Dropbox
Having a Macbook with limited space, I purchased a portable SSD drive to keep my bigger files on, and my Dropbox folder. This works for the most part, however I noticed that when I migrated to the ...
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Does putting Dropbox folder on an exFAT formatted external drive make it portable between Mac and PC?
If I use an exFAT formatted external drive to house my Dropbox folder, will the folder become portable between a Mac and a PC? In other words, if I move the external hard drive between my Mac and PC, ...
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Shared partition between OSX and Windows 10 (using Bootcamp) Disappeared?
Longtime windows user giving OSX a go. My idea was to install Windows via BootCamp and have a shared partition that holds my Dropbox folder (to avoid having dropbox take twice the room on my SSD), ...
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How to sync large directory (30gb) between Android and OSX devices?
So, my laptop is a Mac, and my phone is an Android. I want to sync my music directory between the two. The sync can either be multi-directional, or in a single direction from computer to phone.
I ...
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Fix Dropbox sync remotely
I'm having intermittent trouble getting Dropbox to sync on a remote machine. I don't know what the cause is, but it will sync fine for months then stop. I'm trying to debug this over SSH on OSX (...
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