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Zip file can not decompress Mac OS X
Hello DB. I have now, on multiple occasions, had clients write me that when they download a folder I sent them, the resulting .zip file will provide an error when decompressed. I have myself recreated this on a Macbook Air M2 on OS X Monterey and Big Sur. The downloaded zip file has the correct size, but is corrupt. Best, Tor
How to make my files available offline, so that I'm able to transfer them?
Hello everyone I am new to Dropbox. I have the free trial. I am trying to download all my photos from various phones into Dropbox. Then I am going to transfer them onto an external hard drive. I have just downloaded Dropbox onto my PC and the photos all have clouds next to them. How do I download them so I am able to transfer them. I have thousands so doing this as multiples would be better TIA.
What is the best way to download 50,000 images from my Camera Uploads folder?
Hi, I am slowly downloading the contents of my Dropbox (approx 600GB) to an SSD drive from the website. I do not have the folders synced to my computer as they'd fill it. The last job I have to do is to download the contents of my Camera Uploads folder. I can't find a way to see exactly how many photos/images there are, but I estimate 50k+ based on what I've transferred from my phone over the years. I've attempted and given up on this task a few times. It seems the 'easiest' way to do it is to move the photos into new folders in chunks – seems 1000 at a time is the maximum. I can't see a way to keep track of what's been downloaded without separating them into folders like this first. Factoring time to then download to my computer, unzip the file and then upload to the SSD this is going to take a very long time. Does anyone have any suggestions for any better and/or easier ways to achieve such a large transfer of images? Thanks very much, Emma
I can't see my files, even though I upgraded.
Hello, I added several files yesterday on my new dropbox account. I had a message alerting me that Ive reached my basic capacity. I therefore paid to upgrade to a higher capacity but I still cannot see some pictures. How can I solve this problem please ? Many thanks ! Neïla
Can I download multiple starred images from the website?
I use the “star” feature as a way to quickly sort through images that have been automatically uploaded from my camera memory card and ensure that I have an easy way to find the ones that came out the clearest. But when I go to view all of the starred images, there is no way to quickly download them all at once or select groups of images to download. I have to do it one by one. It’s very time consuming."Smart" sync keeps downloading Online Only Files
I am growing increasingly frustrated with this so called "smart sync" feature Dropbox has recently introduced (or rather forced upon me). I have a number of files I've brought over to Dropbox using the finder on my Mac, that I have then marked as online only, in hopes that it would upload the files and then remove them from my local storage, which is limited. However Dropbox keeps randomly re-downloading the files to my system even after telling it that I want the files to be online only. This feature is supposed to "save hard disk space", which it does seem to do temporarily before it just starts downoading things again. It seems as though the only safe way to keep files from my drive is the old fashioned selective sync from preferences, but this is a backward way of working, especially when I want to have the folder show up on my local drive so I can bring files into it, but I may want those files to only live online. Has anyone found a solution to this abnormal behaviour (that, once again I might add, was forced on us as justification to increase the price of the paid service)?
I'm having issues downloading a 45GB .mov video file.
Hi, I'm having issues downloading a 45gb .mov video file. Mac Mini 2023 Ventura 13.7 In the Dropbox App, when I double click on the file it says, 'The document could not be opened. Try your operation again. If that fails quit and relaunch..etc.' I've done that a number of times but it's still not working. The thing is, there are two other files in the folder which have downloaded successfully via the App. When I try and download the file from the web (multiple times) it always stops halfway through saying,'The network connection was lost.' Any ideas how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
