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dropyak
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

Special Character in Filename causing lack of syncing

I'm moving my files around - syncing via the cloud between a Mac and a PC - and, while I was doing a visual check to ensure the files were correctly synced, I noticed one file that was not syncing. E...
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pfortune
New member | Level 2
11 months ago

To Dropbox: I have thousands of files named with a special characters. I can't synch these without renaming them, and my life won't be long enough to rename them all. If there is no workaround on this, I can't use DropBox, which didn't have this feature in previous versions--used it for 10-15 years!

Please help or tell me to leave.

 

 

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