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.

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ScottMOz
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Popup box confirming that an external drive has been removed

Instead of instantly trashing an entire dropbox folder/set of folders on an external drive (this is a reality of mac OS environments these days) - Introduce a flow that allows a user to manually con...
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ScottMOz's avatar
ScottMOz
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Background - if an external drive is unplugged while in dropbox - Dropbox will effectively instantly delete the entire dropbox contents requiring a large assisted recovery by tech support.   If you are in a teams environment - the teams folder will be trashed.

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