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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Why So Much Telemetry ?
Hi All, My Pi Hole is blocking an INCREDIBLE amount of DropBox telemetry, even more than Windows telemetry, and by a large margin. So I have a few questions. 1. What is this telemetry for ? 2. What information is in there ? 3. Who gets to see it (ie, is it shared in any way with, let's say, advertisers) 4. Why is it being blocked by my standard Pi Hole list, what threat could it be ? 5. Where do I turn it off if I wish to ? Cheers, Threlly28KViews4likes53Comments
In a "mdworker quit unexpectedly" loop after turning on Smart Sync
Ever since turning on Dropbox Smart Sync, Spotlight has been going nuts and using tons of CPU. The helper app "mdworker" is constantly crashing.Will report back after Dropbox finishes indexing all the Smart Sync files. PS. Funny you can't link Dropbox photos to the image uploader in this forum.Solved22KViews0likes102Comments
Dropbox unstable in iPad OS Files App.
The problem I have is that Dropbox seems to crash when running on an iPAD via the apple files app. If I open an application that uses the files app, such as Pages or Final Draft, when saving to the Dropbox via the files app, it crashes the app and for the next 4 to 5 minutes if I click on drop box via the files app it just doesn’t load. Apple has confirmed this is a Dropbox issue (I raised it with them first), and I have not been able to crash the application(s) using Google Drive via files in the same way. Can anyone help?Solved18KViews4likes155CommentsDropbox Back-up for Synology NAS
Hello all, Apologies for the repost if so but I need help understanding the functionality of the cloud tech and services. My goal is to have an unlimited cloud backup on Dropbox of my Synology NAS archive. Does Dropbox Back-Up support that? Details: I have a Synology NAS 4-bay. I use it for personal archives and some client collaboration (photo and video). I want to use Dropbox for client collaboration instead and reserve Synology for personal archive and backblaze as cloud back-up for the archive (which also includes client work). Mostly because the Synology is currently via wifi and is too slow for collaborating but okay for archive. While making a personal Dropbox account I saw Dropbox Back-up allows unlimited space for backing up. I thought this might be useful and perhaps an alternative to backblaze for the back-ups need (in addition to the personal account for collaboration needs) Then I saw this, "Files on your PC or Mac are continuously backed up to the cloud." Does Dropbox Back-Up support syncing all Synology NAS files with unlimited space or only the local computer and external drive? Is this how this works or am I thinking about this wrong? Edit: Synology has Hyper Backup where you can sync to Dropbox. Do I start there and work back to Dropbox Backup unlimited plan?Solved18KViews0likes5Comments
My desktop app is stuck on syncing constantly
I actualy tired about bad dropbox mac desctop app performance... I'm pro user alredy more than two years... And last week my dropbox app stoped working.. Yesterday app stuck on syncing 386 files for all day.. Today app stuck on 1 file and overload my CPU!!!!!!! And this is not first time.. A have big amount of files in my account, about 300gb and more than 200000 files.. and I don't want to resync all my files agan.. Last time it took me more than 3 days... And this CPU usage.. it's not normal!!!! App version: v68.4.102 Macbook Pro 15" i7, 16gb ram, Mojove latest version.. If you not fix this issus, i will cancel my subscription and migrate to google drive.. I can't work this anymore!!!Solved17KViews1like12Comments
brother printer/scanner cannot upload scanned document
it was working yesterday, now I have 2 Brother printers/scanner, different model that I try to scan and upload the scan on dropbox and it fail. Does dropbox have server down or any upgrades happen in last 24-48h??? And no, my space it not full (48%) and I can login into my account from computer. JCSolved16KViews0likes27Comments
"Enable Finder Integration"
I hope I'm asking in the right place. Did Dropbox do away with the "Enable Finder Integration" option? When it's *disabled* the image dimensions are displayed in the Finder with my pictures rather than "up to date"... That's what I want, to disable it. I don't want the big green check mark. I can't find the "Enable Finder Integration" option in preferences anymore.Solved14KViews3likes14Comments
Sync specific photo album on iOS with Dropbox?
For my work, sometimes people tag our products on Instagram. I use an iOS Shortcut to save these photos onto my iPhone, and then I always save the photos in a specific photo album inside the native Photos app to keep it organized. However, when I work from my MacBook it’s sometimes a bit annoying that all of these photos are on my phone; not on my MacBook. So I use Airdrop to transfer them. It would be much easier if when adding the photo to the album on my iPhone, it would at the same time also be uploaded to a Dropbox folder. Is it possible to somehow just sync one iOS photos album with Dropbox? I tried the IFTTT Applet called "If new photo added to iOS album, upload to Dropbox" which sounds like exactly what I need, but it doesn't seem to work.Solved11KViews0likes8Comments
Issue with Good Notes and Dropbox
I am using Good Notes for iPad for studying and whenever I want to insert images from Dropbox, the menu that opens to select the image often stays black and it takes approximately 10-30 minutes until it works again. restarting the app or device doesn't help, only waiting fixes it. Sometimes the problem occurs right after opening the app, sometimes after a while of working. I already reached out to Good Notes Support and they said: "I believe the problem could be related to Dropbox's File Extension couldn't load/retrieve your images from Dropbox's server for some reasons. If you notice this issue is occuring frequently, kindly reach out to Dropbox Support team and see if they have some solutions (as the file extension for showing files from Dropbox is maintained on Dropbox side). " So, what can I do?11KViews1like16CommentsLinked excel sheets not updating
I have a question that has been puzzling my team as we use Excel as our main system in our business, with many separate files that have cells linked together. We have a shared file on dropbox that allows us to all access and update these excel files. Our issue is that if my teammates or I update one excel file, the other files that are linked to it will not update accordingly unless our administrator goes in and manually opens each file. Only when this happens, the updates flow through to the files according to the updates my teammates and I have made. This causes some issues because at times we are not able to continue our work until the administrator opens the files to allow the updates to flow through into them. This also creates issues because only the administrator is able to create links between separate excel files. We are looking for a solution that could enable all team members to preform these tasks, without having to bother the administrator to open the files so the liked cells information can flow through. One side point I would like to mention is that the administrator typically will use excel on the desktop, while many team members are using "excel for the web". On the top of my excel for the web page, it has a yellow message that reads, "Links Disabled, Links to external workbooks are not supported and have been disabled". - I have a feeling this has something to do with it. Our team members currently have a mix of Apple and Windows computers.Solved9.4KViews0likes4Comments