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Files not syncing on desktop
Have used DB for many years and never had this problem. I created a folder on my desktop with various subfolders + shared with a team mate who then uploaded a series of documents to those folders, no...
AzureSure wrote:
i can easily access them online but they are not syncing to my my desktop folders ...
Files are named appropriately, without any characters that would be incompatible on a Windows system? This is especially common if you're sharing with a Mac user, and would prevent such files from syncing down to your computer.
Nope - here they are side-by-side. desktop folders and online, but when you open them, nothing is in the desktop folder
OMGEEE! Wait, you are correct! that was it THANK YOU! i've never had that issue before!
- Rich
Super User II
AzureSure wrote:
i've never had that issue before!
It's common when working on or sharing with different operating systems, Mac and Windows especially. Windows has several characters that are reserved by the system, like the pipe | in your filenames, and services like Dropbox can't create the file if it contains any of those characters.
