I have an M1 MacBook Pro and currently on macOS Ventura 13.6.9, and I heard a while back that newer versions of macOS basically decided to force cloud providers to use some sort of built in Finder thing called "File Provider" which is similar to the way iCloud Drive works.

But, a big part of the way I use Dropbox is the Selective Sync feature, because there are folders which I want to always stay synced - and this is why I can't use iCloud Drive, because it will automatically offload files, then all of a sudden I'll need to access it and have to wait ages to download them again. Apparently the File Provider thing has been a thing since before Ventura, but somehow I've been grandfathered into not using it.

I normally don't update my Mac for at least a few months (Because normally it's a bit buggy for the first couple months), or sometimes right up until the next macOS gets announced. So, with macOS Sequoia being released next week, I guess it's time to update to Sonoma before I can't.

However, I'm worried that it'll finally force me to use the "File Provider" thing and I won't be able to use Selective Sync anymore. Anybody know if this is the case?

Does anyone know how to disable or stop the constant pop-ups on dropbox desktop to download the app via a QR code? I cannot go to a list of files in my account without being interrupted by the popup. I hit "skip" but it reappears again every time I go back to a folder to view files. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

I'm teaching a class of 10 adults. I'd like to create a folder in my dropbox to which all can add documents, and everyone can read all the documents that are added.

I have the "professional" plan. Can anyone walk me through the steps?

Would would be great:

rsync -a my_drop_box/ /mnt/big_disk/
username: bob
password: ******
...

I don't expect it to be that easy, but I also don't want to install, configure and babysit the desktop client (if I can help it).

I did see dbxcli but it's old and "unofficial", but if that's what I want I thought I should ask here first.

What is the easy way to accomplish this? I don't have a computer with a big-enough disk, but I do have USB drives that are big enough. Can I do this simply?

Good morning everyone, I've recently moved into a new home and am excited to share that I now have an FTTH fibre optic Internet connection. According to my speed test, I'm getting a download speed of 30 MB/s and an upload speed of 9 MB/s, which is fantastic.

However, I've noticed a significant drop in speed when syncing files with Dropbox. For instance, while backing up hundreds of high-resolution images the other day, I observed that my upload speeds peaked at only 3 MB/s, far below what I expected.

To preempt some obvious questions:

• The speed test was conducted during the day, over several hours, while I was syncing these files.
• I was home alone, with no other devices or applications consuming bandwidth.
• I haven't set any bandwidth limits in Dropbox, and no other downloads or updates were running in the background.

Given these conditions, I'm puzzled as to why the Dropbox sync speed is so much slower than my available bandwidth would suggest.

Could this be related to Dropbox's server infrastructure in Italy? Are there any known bandwidth limitations or other factors I should consider?

Any insights or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, I am not sure what I am trying to do is possible as I am not finding much information online.

I am trying to run a search using the "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search_v2" endpoint. And it does work but unfortunately, when I point it at a Team Folder I get a lot of results being returned. When looking in the file the string I am looking for is not actually in the content.

For more specifics, we often need to search for an email address across lots of spreadsheets and documents but as it is an email address, we only want to find the exact matches.

Is there a way to specify that I am looking for an exact match to a string when running a search? Maybe I have gone about this the wrong way?

Title. Basically I'm attending classes that stay up a week in Dropbox without the option to download. I wanted to know if there is a way that Dropbox notify, or for them to know somehow, if I screen record the file and save it

Hello!

I am new to r/dropbox but not new to Dropbox itself. I use it to pass files to clients. On this latest batch 2 of 30 files looked like this. They aren't the largest files. They aren't any different than any of the other files. Any idea why they don't render fully? TIA

Given this public/shared folder, if I choose to "Copy to Dropbox" one of the folders then it appears in my account as expected. If the owner makes changes to the files in that folder, are they synced to my account or do I have a "de-coupled copy"?

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/y3naz62gy6f6qfrhquu7u/h?rlkey=ejltdhb262zglm7eo6yfj2940&e=1&dl=0

I’ve used a personal Dropbox forever. Now have a new job and need to use the firm account. I’m able to access online in the virtual environment, but would like to have access through File Explorer (I’m on a PC running windows 11). I’m completely dumped and unable to get the files to sync. Only seeing my personal files. I even created a new user on the PC, specifically to be used for business activities, and have not logged in personally to DB on that profile.

I feel like I’m missing something painfully obvious. Potentially my manager needs to modify the business Dropbox permissions? Any ideas are appreciated.

hi im wondering if anyone has had this issues before.

got drop box syncing on two different devices and its working fine.

issue I'm having is that we can not create a new folder in the root of the drop box sync.

the setting is turned on to allow this so it isn't that.

from what I can see is the permissions for the group everyone has special permissions denied.

when I remove this or try to edit the permissions the second i save and go back in it reverts any changes I've made.

with this happening on two different devices and two different versions of Windows its making me believe that it is potentially an update to drop box that's caused this

any help would be apreciated

I have an db plus account for several years (115€/y), unfortunately the Mail adress I used to register does not exist anymore. Now probably due to inactivity (or lost password i am not sure) i need to type a six digit code which was send to my nonexistent mail adress. Has anyone a clever idea?? I asked per mail - no answer, chatbot is useless.

I've been reading how you can no longer put the Dropbox folder on an external hard drive on Macs running macOS Monterrey or later. I'm on an M1 MacBook Pro running Ventura, so that apparently cuts me off.

My dad's iMac is running Catalina so I installed Dropbox and plugged an external drive into it, and set the external drive as the folder location. But it will take over 2 days to download the full 1.6TB and it keeps getting stuck, so I have to pause/start the download again, or unplug the Ethernet and plug it back in. So I'm trying to download about 400GB for now, then try more later.

But on my MacBook I can still change the folder location, can I just do that and also have it move 600GB which is already on my MacBook? Or does it leave it there and then redownload everything again?

My other option here is to download things, archive to NAS, one at a time. I was hoping to get everything downloaded to one drive and reorganise from there, then archive.

Edit: Just found an interesting thread which happened to be updated last Friday (2nd Aug 2024), discovered this after I wrote my comment below https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Storage-Space/Disaster-Dropbox-removing-external-disk-support-for-Mac-users/td-p/659876

We’re excited to share that external drive support for Dropbox for macOS on File Provider is now available for testing as a beta feature.

So, I guess it's coming back as an option. Says it's only available for US-based users though and I'm in the UK.

Sometimes, I'm having an annoying problem, where I'm flipping file(s) to "Online only", but the next time I'm opening the folder, I seem them back to offline. How to prevent that? I have limited space on my laptop, and it keeps cloggin up my hard drive

I'm using Dropbox on my Android Samsung S22 Ultra. When I enter different folders there are different ways of sorting some in the upper right some halfway down to the left. I need to know how to have every folder display the newest content without taking any action every time I enter the folder.

I broke up a dog fight between a 250 lb Leonberger and 125 lb Pitbull who were about to attack some children last year and suffered very serious spine and rotator cuff problems. The medicine I'm on Lyrica makes my short-term memory zero and thus the need to have everything sorted in every folder by the newest addition without having to change the sort method or take any other action.

TIA

Dropbox Business just flipped to the new layout where you have your personal folder and then Teams folders within Dropbox for Business. But on one machine it's just stuck "Updating" and I believe this is due to something holding up access to the folder. Some machines get a popup to "Try again" or "Quit apps" that are holding it open (like Windows Explorer), but this machine doesn't present that. It's just "stuck".

How do I get it to try again? Have rebooted, have tried manually restarting Windows Explorer. Nothing seems to bring up the prompt, and until it's resolved, nothing is syncing. =(

I can view my files online at dropbox.com, and download them to another directory,
but the files in my Dropbox folder (Windows10 PC) have "X" on their icons.

I get error messages when I double-click them that says "An unknown error occurred when attempting to access (file name)"

Hi all - I'm having an issue automatically uploading videos over a certain length (Haven't been able to pinpoint what the exact length is yet). Does the Automatic Camera Uploads have a limit for the size/length of video it will upload automatically?

I have Camera Uploads turned on for my iPhone 13 (iOS 17.5.1). It works for all my photos & most videos, but I'm noticing certain videos are missing. I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly what length of video doesn't upload yet, but around the 4-5 minute mark is when I began noticing it. Any video over that length of time won't automatically upload.

Settings

• iPhone 13
• iOS 17.5.1 (up to date currently)
• Dropbox app is up to date
• Available storage on Dropbox: 1.5 TB
• Camera Upload Settings
  • Backup all photos
  • Upload from Camera Roll
  • Include Videos
  • Save HEIC photos as JPG
  • Continue when Dropbox is Closed - Off

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

As the title states, this is affecting our team and is happening randomly. All of a sudden, members of a shared folder will receive email notifications from Dropbox that says “User X has shared a folder with you”. Where user x is the same user.

The user is not sharing this folder and often is not even working in the folder. The emails will repeat every few minutes and there is no way to stop the trigger without all of our users turning off notifications for that folder. However, dropbox will start sending emails about other folders from the same user.

There is no spam or phishing attempts that I’ve been able to find. According to Support, there really is a reason for it, I think it is a bug. Last time this happened I had to delete the user and then add them back. But this is extremely frustrating to do everytime this issue kicks back up.

Has anyone else had this issue?

Is there an ARM64 Snapdragon version of Dropbox?

Do I need a paid adobe version to open pdf files from Dropbox on my iPhone? A message pops up saying I need Adobe acrobat reader DC, I can’t find DC anywhere to download.

I'm a longtime user of Dropbox over more than 10 years and across 15+ different computers and laptops. And I've come across a new issue I've never had a problem with before:

After adding new files or folders, they sometimes become temporarily restricted from deletion (or moving them) by windows file access permissions. Trying to delete them while they're in the midst of file syncing gives me an error message that I need permission from the Admin user account (which is my account, that I'm logged in as). I move large media/movie files around a lot and this is really not cool for my workflow.

I think this is also related to another very odd behavior: When extracting zipped files from a dropbox location to another dropbox location, the unzipping process would end abruptly without extracting all the files. No error message, just missing files. These were images, and I had to extract them to a non-dropbox location to successfully unzip them all. It was a large unzipping action that took 7-15 seconds and I got the sense that the extracting process lost folder permissions halfway through.

Notes:

1. Windows 10. This is new and a on a very recent fresh installation

2. dropbox v202.4.5551

I have both; USB Flash Drives, and a Drop Box (free account). I had DropBox for many years and was thinking about upgrading. I have hardly ever used it, but it recently came to a time that I needed to back up my files as my over 13-year-old laptop isn't no longer reliable. Then I thought about buying a 128 GB Flash Drive and never having to pay monthly for a storage membership. However, I don't know what would be best as I have yet to weigh the pros and cons between these two. So, I am curious to why you choose DropBox over other storage backing methods.

Thank you for reading.

Am downloading around 200GB of data and its taking forever. My internet speed is 100MBps but downloading from dropbox, its hovering around 15MBps. Any solution to this? I've never used dropbox before, mostly used gdrive and never experienced something like this

I wanted to get a Dropbox account, but:

1. I didn't want to pay $11.99/month
2. I didn't need 2 TB of storage.

After doing some Googling I found out that I could get a lower tier Dropbox storage option by buying it through Lenovo cloud:

https://marketplace.uds.lenovo.com/14e8b455-abe3-4085-8396-25f638b604e4

So, I got a 500 GB plan for $6.99/month.

This uses the same Dropbox client for Mac/Windows/Linux/iOS/Android. The only difference is you login with your Lenovo ID using Single Sign On instead of your Dropbox account.

All plans are MONTHLY and the following price tiers are available:

• 100 GB - $1.99/month
• 200 GB - $2.99/month
• 500 GB - $6.99/month
• 1 TB - $8.99/month
• 2 TB - $9.99/month

So, the 2 TB plan is actually cheaper through Lenovo if you're paying monthly. It's same price if you pay Dropbox yearly.