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.
Show Upload Speeds
This used to be possible on a mac. In the menu bar you could click the dropbox icon and it would show you the speeds of your upload. Now it just says "syncing" but that isn't nearly as helpful. It would be much more helpful to restore the progress bar and the upload speed. As this used to be a feature, I don't know why it was removed. It was very helpful. Oftentimes I need to be able to tell clients how long something will take to upload, but I cannot do this as I once did. Also, I don't know if this is a bug of my system or how it is for everyone (I'm on macOS Sequoia), but there is no upload progress meter. The file uploading either says "waiting to sync" or "synced" with nothing in between. Per the above it would be helpful to have a progress meter that works. I should say all of this in regards to basic syncing.
Dropbox icon with checkbox white interior remains a mystery.
Megan from the DropBox staff offered some help to an earlier post entitled "Dropbox icon and folder status on a Mac” but despite my replies, the discussion went dead seven days ago. I still have outstanding questions and would like to revive the discussion. I have selected the preference that all files and folders be available off-line on my primary MacBook, however, I have a mix of checkboxes, that is to say both kinds… green interior and a white check mark and white interior with a green checkmark. Below is the explanation link that Megan supplied, but there's no mention of the check mark with white interior, which was puzzling because I had seen but lost another page earlier that included that in the explanations. In looking at this article about syncing icons and reference was made to the DropBox desktop app, which aside from the icon that lives next to the Time Machine icon in the upper right menu bar in the Finder, I'm not really sure what the dropbox desktop app is? Yes it appears in the application folder, but if I double click on it, it simply takes me to the designated dropbox folder within my User folder. Which, by the way, except for emergencies, that is the only way I work with DropBox. The primary thing I want to do is faithfully mirror the activity of the Finder “DropBox” folder on the primary MacBook and have the files and folders populate to other devices. Finally, all my posts from the last month or so started re. puzzling changes to modification dates following a migration from an old MacBook to a new one. In nearly 40 years of using a Macintosh this has been one of the most challenging technical snafus I've ever encountered. Thanks, Paul syncing icons based on this article?Can't sync my Dropbox account to a new computer
I have a Dropbox account with 2.75 GB of storage that I previously had set up on my desktop Mac. Now I have a new computer and can't see any of the Dropbox files or folders. I can still see them from my phone, so I know they exist. I tried using the Connect a Computer tool from Dropbox on my phone, but nothing changed. The Dropbox folder on my computer is empty and the Dropbox icon on the menu bar doesn't show anything either. How do I reconnect this new computer to my Dropbox account with the files and folders?
exFat support
ExFAT should come standard, no request necessary. We're in a future now where multiple operating systems and platforms are in use daily, NTFS isnt very friendly. FAT32 has its limitations with a 4GB file size limit and a maximum 2TB partition size, so it's not suitable for content creators. I've been a customer for 5 years and feel it's unnecessary for me to have to ask for this basic feature to be added. please add exFAT support. Thank you.
How can I sync my Dropbox files to the new Mac device I got?
I recently migrated my data from a macbookpro OS12.5, to a MacbookAir 14.6 M3. Now I can still find all my files and folders online using Safari, but the computer dropbox app is black. There are no files or folders in it. In my macbookpro, all the dropbox files and folders were online only to save space in the HD. How can I sync my old dropbox files to my new computer? I still want to keep them all online only, so I do not want the data on my computer, only the index of what is available.
