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Lots of Dropbox folders on my PC for one Dropbox account - how to find my active one?
I have been tidying up my files. I have moved the location of my dropbox folder a number of times. I now have several folders call "dropbox", and they all have that cute looking icon... I actually have 2 basic accounts on different email addresses. I was offered a free "business" account a while back and i took it. I only want file access to one dropbox account on my PC. I can access the other via web access. I'm trying to move to one account, by archiving and reducing the use of cloud storage, but right now all I want to do is to find my active dropbox folder and delete the others(some of which will not agree to be deleted!). Any help welcome!I don't know why my Word file hasn't synced the previous versions
I have been working on a Word doc all weekend, saving with command+S all the time, and on the third day, I dragged a bunch of photos into word and the whole doc messed up. Undoing wouldn't fix the problem: text was missing and photos were all blank - document useless. So I exited without saving and logged into Dropbox online. Version History said it had 5 versions from 4:39pm to 4:32pm, (it's currently 2:49pm here in Australia so even if this is American time it is wrong because they are behind us...) And where are all the other versions of the doc? The saves I made yesterday and the day before all had importent info. The five versions here seem to be days old - though they purport to be from today. What is going on?
Questions about syncing and organizing the Dropbox folder
Hello! (1) Can I delete the whole dropbox-folder architecture (because sync does not work anymore) without risking to loose any data (folder) of my dropbox? (2) How can I indicate the status of the file for uploading, i.e., sync offline, or, only-one file, etc? (3) How can I change the status of a file or folder according to (2)? Thank you.
Moving files on my desktop to the trash deletes them immediately instead.
I am running Dropbox Backup. On MacOS, when I drag a file on my desktop to the trash, it is deleted automatically. In other words, it does not appear in the trash in case I want to recover it later. I get a warning that says "This item will be deleted immediately. You can't undo this action." When the same file is in any other folder or location on my computer besides the Desktop, and I drag it to the trash, the behavior is normal - the files goes into the trash where I can see it and recover it if need be. I am running Dropbox Backup on Sequoia 15.2 on a 2020 M1 Macbook Air. Any thoughts?Dropbox Finder Extension not showing correct status
I recently had the Dropbox Finder Extension show some items in my Dropbox as available. Not synced. I restarted Dropbox. No change. I quit the Dropbox Finder extension. That didn't help. I quit and restarted Finder. Now my Dropbox items have nothing beside them. I did a full computer restart. My Dropbox items STILL have nothing beside them. Did I find a bug? Or did I just kaput my install?File deletions occasionally fail in Dropbox
Observed when processing files with a Python script of my own, but likely to be a nuisance to developers of any software, that allows you to store files in arbitrary locations. A common pattern when modifying files is to first write them to a temporary file in the same directory (ensuring that it is on the same physical drive) and then replacing the original file with the modified file. This pattern gives safety against data corruption, if the program fails while creating the new version of the file. In Python, that translates in the simplest case to: tempfile = file.with_suffix(file.suffix + ".tmp") tempfile.write_text("hello world") tempfile.replace(file) On Windows, I find that this pattern frequently fails with an error like PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: 'E:\\Dropbox\\tmp\\test.txt' but only for files in Dropbox. This means that any script I write must allow for retrying the .replace() step. To give a more complete, read-to use, example I provide the subsequent script, which repeatedly performs the pattern both in %TEMP% and in E:\Dropbox\tmp. On my System, Dropbox is on E:\Dropbox, so that part has to be adjusted for anyone trying the script. For me, the script rarely manages more than 8 repetitions. import os from pathlib import Path TEMPFILE_DIR = Path(os.getenv("TEMP")) DROPBOX_ROOT = Path("E:/Dropbox") # Adjust for you system, usually C:/Users/Username/Dropbox" def main(): tempdirfile = TEMPFILE_DIR / "tmp.txt" dropboxfile = Path("E:/Dropbox/tmp/test.txt") i = 0 while True: i += 1 print(i) for file in (tempdirfile, dropboxfile): # file.unlink() # would solve in most cases, but still fails every few hundred attempts # # also defeats the purpose of using the pattern in the first place tempdirfile.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) tempfile = file.with_suffix(".txt.tmp") tempfile.write_text(TEXT) print("In {}: {} -> {}".format(file.parent, file.name, tempfile.name)) tempfile.replace(file) TEXT = """ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris justo purus, pharetra quis ornare in, tincidunt et odio. Sed pulvinar lorem vel justo vestibulum aliquet. Nunc et nisi dui. Cras tempus lacus ac quam imperdiet mattis. Maecenas tristique dui vel orci condimentum volutpat. Quisque ut mauris metus. Fusce libero metus, luctus eget sagittis a, venenatis et ex. Aenean purus tellus, feugiat et libero vel, congue elementum tellus. Cras at interdum nulla. Ut ut nunc id nibh lacinia dapibus quis id turpis. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum eu iaculis sapien. Fusce lobortis massa at molestie posuere. """ if __name__ == "__main__": main()
Dropbox has changed the file organization on my computer
Hello, Can anyone help me with navigating files on my computer? Since I tried to install Dropbox all my files have been addressed different. On power shell and command line I can't get to some folders because dropbox has other folders with the same name and I don't how to navigate to the directories and folders I want? Can anyone help me with this? Thanks.