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MountainGram
8 months agoHelpful | Level 5
Files not syncing from my Surface
I saved my most recent version of a manuscript on Monday, May 5th before going out of town. It is now May 8th, and the files are not showing up in my Dropbox account. The most recent version I'm seei...
MountainGram
Helpful | Level 5
I cannot find them either on my device or on dropbox.com. Two full days seems an awfully long time for a simple word document not to sync.
The last files I see on my surface and on dropbox.com are from May 2nd.
The dropbox icon on my system tray shows two files that I opened today as still syncing, but not the ones from May 5th.
Jay
8 months agoDropbox Staff
HI MountainGram, does the file appear in the Dropbox folder on your laptop? Does it have a sync icon on it?
A screenshot showing this would help us greatly!
- MountainGram8 months agoHelpful | Level 5
Kind of hard to take a screenshot of something that's not there. The files in question aren't showing up aonywhere.
- Jay8 months agoDropbox Staff
Could you get a screenshot of the files that are appearing on the computer then, since that's where they're not syncing from?
- MountainGram8 months agoHelpful | Level 5
I don't know what you want a screenshot of. Sorry.
- Jay8 months agoDropbox Staff
"I save the originals to Dropbox via my PC; I'm trying to get them from my Surface, but they're not there."
Where are those files, are they simply missing entirely from all your devices and the Dropbox site?
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