You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Example:
User creates a file named "foo/bar?.txt" in MacOS (? is an invalid character in windows). Under windows the file will not download and the folder appears to be empty. The user can try to m...
Hi Rich.
First, I agree that modification should not be done to a users files without user knowledge or consent and in my second post I reiterated that there should be an "option for automatic resolution".
For your point "Nothing is broken here." I would disagree. Look in my exaple case I outline the behaviour with folders when there is a file with an invalid name in it. As well when you have files with invalid characters there is no indication to the user that something is wrong, the only status is ":white_check_mark: Everything is up to date".
Also the "perfect solution" you refrenced was mentioned in my posts. It is not a solution at all. It only shows that Dropbox is aware of this issue but has only provided the user with the means to manually edit the name of each of the affected files.