- #How to use dropbox on mac to email large files full#
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#How to use dropbox on mac to email large files professional#
So I was shocked when it deleted them off of dropbox, it deleted them on my new Mac as well.1) When you are composing an email in Professional Webmail, you will notice the blue Dropbox logo.
#How to use dropbox on mac to email large files full#
I thought, they are on my old Mac and my new Mac and my dropbox is full so I will back them up a different way and begin using my dropbox for different things. It did not give me the option to keep them in both places. I need and want them on my new Mac, so I was able to restore them on dropbox (I acted quick enough I suppose) but now I am afraid that if I delete them on dropbox it will delete them from my Mac again.Ģ) I did not delete them from the website, or anywhere, I just chose to "keep them," on my old Mac which I think deleted them dropbox. So when I removed them from dropbox, it deleted them on my new Mac and I am not sure why that is. I had moved them to my new Mac through Mac migration, so I did not think they were linked.
I chose to keep them on my old Mac, I no longer needed them in dropbox. Then it gave me the option to keep the files on dropbox or keep them on my Mac. It said in order to do so I needed to stop backing up so I clicked yes to do this.
Why did deleting them on the cloud delete them on my new Mac? How can I keep them on my new Mac without keeping them in the cloud now? I don't even understand how dropbox got the ability to delete these files on my new Mac because like I said above, I didn't transfer them with dropbox.Ĭan anyone help me 1) understand what happened and 2) a way to not have my files on the cloud without the risk of them being deleted here again.ġ) While trying to unsync dropbox from my old Mac ( I think its just called signing out now, I clicked sign out). Unfortunately, they don't have any reasonable prices for personal, non-business use either so I have not felt comfortable investing further in it. What I don't understand, is these files were never transferred with Dropbox onto my new Mac, they were transferred when I did Mac migration so why would deleting them on the cloud delete them on this Mac? This aspect of dropbox has scarred me so much it makes me want to avoid using it. That put me for a scare but I was able to get them restored in dropbox and they are popping back up on my new Mac now. Suddenly, all of those files were deleted on my new Mac. So I chose to delete them on the cloud and keep them on my old Mac. So I did that and it gave me the option to keep them in my cloud and delete them off of the computer or delete them on my computer and keep them in the cloud.įrom my perspective, they were on my computer in "hard form," not just synced files so deleting them from the cloud would be fine and leaving them on my old mac would also be fine. I wanted to factory reset my old Mac, it barely works but thought I would give that a try and needed to unsync, to do that I needed to stop backing up my files. One issue I seemed to have, but am not certain, is that dropbox did not seem to being "reading" my new Mac as a different Mac. Everything I needed was in "in the cloud," so it seemed to be fine. Dropbox was set up with the new computer, logged in and everything but didn't seem to be backing up on the new computer. Context: I got a new Mac and transferred everything over using Mac migration, worked great.