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alex eben meyer's avatar
alex eben meyer
Explorer | Level 4
4 months ago

I can't rename a file I duplicated on Mac OS

i have seen this come up before, but haven't seen a fix. when i duplicate a file, on mac (sonoma 14.6.1) i am unable to rename the file. this is a standard part of my work flow and highly frustrati...
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  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
    4 months ago

    Glad to hear the behavior doesn’t persist, at least for now. If this resurfaces though in the future, feel free to let us know here and we can continue looking into this.

alex eben meyer's avatar
alex eben meyer
Explorer | Level 4

a quicker fix for some issues is force quitting finder. (that helps when all the dropbox features in finder disappear). i haven't been having major issues of late, and restarting dropbox does seem to help.  i feel like i used to have zero issues, but now i have some.

karenap's avatar
karenap
Explorer | Level 4
3 months ago

starting Dropbox has never worked for me – restating the Mac has though.

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