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.
Can I download my external drive backup onto my new external drive?
Hello The external USB hard drive which I used with Dropbox Backup was physically damaged and will not connect. I would like to download 1TB of files stored in Dropbox Backup to put onto a new drive. Is there a way to point the entire Dropbox backup at a new drive? Reading this, if I log out and log back into Dropbox on my Mac, my only computer, can I point Dropbox Backup to a new External and have it download all of the files slowly? Utilizing the web interface is riddled with errors that there are too many .zip files in the folders. Thank you
I downloaded my .wav files from Dropbox, but they don't always play on my device.
I have a Sound FX library that I keep on Dropbox. 200GB. When I downloaded them, half of them no longer work. A few things happen: They won't play in quicktime but they will play in Audition They will play in Audition sometimes or once, but if I try to reload them into Audition, they are corrupted. Sometimes if I download the files individually they will work. But this is not consistent. The whole thing is very odd, but I found this thread from 5 years ago, so I'm not alone: https://www.dropboxforum.com/discussions/101001012/when-i-download-files-to-my-computer-the-sound-becomes-corrupted/336777/replies/485890
Slow response using Dropbox for Python
Hello, My python code has been working well for months. Within the past 48 hours, the files_download command in the snippet below (with tokens obfuscated) has started to take about 45 seconds while previously it was instantaneous. It is the last line that is the culprit. import dropbox DROPBOX_APP_KEY = "?????" DROPBOX_APP_SECRET = "?????" DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN = "????" dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(app_key=DROPBOX_APP_KEY, app_secret=DROPBOX_APP_SECRET, oauth2_refresh_token=DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN) metadata, f = dbx.files_download('/alerts.csv') Any suggestions? With thanks, David
Automatically sync all files to an explorable folder on Android?
It would be immensely helpful to me to be able to automatically download every file to a folder on my Android phone when it syncs with my Dropbox account, the same way it does on my Windows PC. I can't seem to be able to find a way to do this automatically the way it works on desktop, and it's very frustrating. I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm using the free version of Dropbox. If this is a feature supported by a higher tier, I'll happily upgrade.We can't download a 60GB video file, as the download stops midway on the website.
I'm having issues with downloading 60+GB video files for a client (who pays for a 5TB Dropbox standard account). 1) Dropbox seems to be throttling my download at 5mb/s. And 2) the download has been stopping mid way randomly, leaving an incomplete file (using Chrome). Speedtest for my ISP shows I can get up to 40mb/s download.
Commercial use of audio streaming on Dropbox, are there any GDPR requirements?
Hello! I have 2 questions: I sell audiocourses in books and give the users access to the audiofile with a QR Code. After buying the book the user can scan the qr code with his phone and listen to the audios (the audio player directly starts). 1) Is it ok to use dropbox for this function? 2) Is there any data transfer happening from user side, if he access the audio? Does he needs to give permission regarding GDPR? Thank you for your kind support!
Some downloaded signed documents have black boxes covering the signatures
We are finding that on various of our agents accounts the odd document when downloaded is covering some of the signatures with a black box. Has anyone else had this happen and how did you fix it?Wondering if it may be a setting on one of the accounts. Any help would be much appreciated.
