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 all,
I'm right in the middle of a nightmare of dropbox migration, all because of illegal characters caused by Mac users going crazy with bad naming.
You are not quite right about dropbox not fixing stuff without asking, example:
If you have a folder called "Customers " (yes, with the space at the end) it will be renamed "Customers" as soon as the dropbox client grabs it. This causes a "final copy of changed files from old file server" a disaster since it will think that the folder "Customers " does no longer exist.
But, this isn't the biggest issue here. The old file server contains a lot of files which seem to come from some kind of media database where all folders have correct names, but the file names are by standard "media\1234.jpg" (yes, the \ is a part of the file name). These files will stay silent in the local dropbox folders and the dropbox client says everything is fine. It will not get uploaded to dropbox, and the only way to tell it's not working is to go down to the files and see the "red cross" on them.
As some of ppl the above says, i would really like an option to allow dropbox to change names to "standard characters" or at least some good way to list files not liked by dropbox.