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Photo updates to USB from DropBox
Hi, Iâm an Emergency Services photographer, and I regularly provide USBâs filled with images of their station, trucks and personnel. Each time I receive a USB back to add new content, I have to manually delete the existing files from the USB to put the new Synced DropBox stuff onto it or manually select the rows of photos and Copy & Paste them onto the USB file. upload the updated versions, and then copy everything back onto the USB. It would be incredibly helpful to have a feature where I can simply select new content and press âUpload New Content to USB,â allowing the system to automatically update the drive with only the new additions. (I upload photos from my iPad onto the cloud then use the Dragging and Copy and Paste feature on laptop.) Iâd love for this idea to be considered! - Ty
How to find unsynced folder?
I want to make sure that I'm syncing my entire Dropbox to my Mac. Apparently I've unchecked folders in Selective Sync - but when I try to find out which one, they all appear to be checked. I've just spent an hour going through my entire folder structure and all the boxes are checked. Is this a bug? -- I can't seem to add a screenshot or link for some reason. I'm getting an "invalid HTML" error...
Viewing files locally is incredibly slow since the February/March 25 update.
Windows 11. Desktop app. Dropbox Plus Prior to the February/March 25 update, my files (any type of file, but mostly PDF's and JPG's) would open either instantly or within a few seconds. After the February/March 25 update, opening a file results in the spinning wheel of death and takes 20-30 seconds to open. If I quit the Dropbox app the problem is fixed and the files load instantly again. It's almost as if Dropbox is either force downloading these files from the cloud before opening them locally, or the Dropbox app is hanging for whatever reason. I have not changed any settings between updates and my preferences are set to Sync > "Available Offline" and unchecked "Save hard drive space automatically" This has absolutely killed my productivity as I reference these creative files regularly and having to wait 20-30 seconds per file opening makes Dropbox unusable in its present state. Has anyone else experienced incredibly slow file opening since the February/March update and is anyone aware of a fix on the horizon?
How can I use selective sync on Linux?
Guys: I would like to use the Dropbox CLI to perform âSelective Syncâ on a sub-directory, $HOME/Dropbox/level1/level2. The following are my sample commands in Linux: dropbox exclude add $HOME/Dropbox/* dropbox exclude remove $HOME/Dropbox/level1/level2 However, the second command does not work. If I change it to âdropbox exclude remove $HOME/Dropbox/level1â, it will work. Looks like the command only works under directory, $HOME/Dropbox, it will not go down to next level of sub-directories. Could you shine some light on this? Thanks! Yi
Support online-only files for ARM (Snapdragon) processors
We are currently unable to use Dropbox on Windows Surface Pro Devices with Snapdragon Processors as they do not allow for Online-Only files. This causes the entirety of their files to sync to the device and renders the device unusable as all disk space is consumed.
Dropbox app is stuck indexing two files for weeks on my Windows device.
For weeks the Sync Icon is busy turning. Hovering the mouse over the icon it says "indexing two files", opening the icon it says " two files ar syncing". How can I stop this? How can I find out, which files are in question? Any help appriciated, Michael
The app re-indexes all files after each restart on Mac.
Each time I restart my Mac, Dropbox goes through reindexing of (seemingly) all files in my folder. The Mac's CPU usage goes up and the fan kicks in - it makes the computer slow for at least 15 minutes. It does finally complete, but it would obviously be much better if this did not happen.
If I reinstall Dropbox will the files that are already indexed on my hard drive still be linked?
I want to stop a huge syncing process that was started by mistake. I have read that the only effective way to do this is to uninstall and reinstall the desktop app. There are a large number of files already indexed on my external hard drive. I am concerned that if I uninstall and reinstall then I may have to index all of these files again, which will take days if not weeks. I would like to know what happens with the files when I reinstall - will the app function as it did before, as if it was never uninstalled?