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Some folders are not synced under windows 10
Hello everybody,
I hope this is the correct forum section for this thread. I do have an dropbox account with several folders, which are all available in the browser. But on my desktop (Windows ...
Slev1n wrote:
But on my desktop (Windows 10) PC two folders are missing. On another PC the data is also available.
Are both systems Windows, or is the other system a Mac? Make sure the folders don't have any characters in their names that would be incompatible on a Windows system. This is common when syncing between a Mac and a PC because a Mac can use certain characters that are reserved by Windows. Files or folders with such characters will show up in your account online, but they can't sync to a Windows computer.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
Slev1n wrote:
But on my desktop (Windows 10) PC two folders are missing. On another PC the data is also available.
Are both systems Windows, or is the other system a Mac? Make sure the folders don't have any characters in their names that would be incompatible on a Windows system. This is common when syncing between a Mac and a PC because a Mac can use certain characters that are reserved by Windows. Files or folders with such characters will show up in your account online, but they can't sync to a Windows computer.
Thank you for the hint - the folder did have a period in the name which I did not notice first.
