Dropbox download with no file extension

Could you also let me know of the file extension? Have you tried with opening the file in question using a different application perchance? Joey Camilleri. Helpful Level 5. Hello I'm also having the same issue with an MP4 from.

Let me know how it goes Joey! Explorer Level 4. Having a similar issue, and have been for many months with dropbox. When I transfer an mp4 file through Google Drive it downloads and plays perfectly on quicktime. What gives. The people I work with have asked me to stop using your service Thanks Walter I'm not sure what codecs are or how to check for missing codecs. Audio and video codecs are used by applications on your devices to open your files.

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Track file interactions with DocSend, and sign and notarize documents with Notarize. Use HelloFax to shoot out scanned paper documents without a desk-cluttering fax machine. Thanks for this. In fact, I never moved these files out of Dropbox - they were safely in Dropbox when I had Apple clean-install Catalina. Somehow during the installation, Catalina added. I don't understand how the OS got access to them - that seems very wrong to me - but I know that they are aliases because when I couldn't open the files directly from dropbox, I dragged one to my desktop and it disappeared, "poof!

They say the only way I can access the actual files as opposed to just the aliases is through you, Dropbox. Can you help? You can try downloading each file and folder manually via the Dropbox site to your computer, however, it does seem like iCloud has made these changes, so it might persist even after putting files back into the Dropbox folder.

Is there no option with iCloud to download the files from their system, or to disable that feature? Thanks for being in touch. When I try downloading the files from Dropbox, they completely disappear - it is clear that the "files" with iCloud extensions appended are merely aliases.

Note that this is a double extension; the files in question read "filename. Apple says my only hope for retrieving the affected files is to find out from Dropbox another way to access the actual files rather than simply the links to them.

They can't do that for me, so I am wondering if Dropbox can. Note that of course the computer was backed up by Time Machine, but Time Machine understandably doesn't back up Dropbox files, only the software.

I thought the files in Dropbox were "safe" from the clean reinstall of Catalina, and as it turns out, they were not. How did Dropbox let Apple into their system? I'd be worried about that if I were Dropbox. If you can't help me, can you direct me to someone who can? If I subscribe to a higher level of Dropbox, can I speak to someone on the phone for support? Thanks again for trying to help me. The Apple technicians say that there is no way to change or reverse the extension on the file that will make it so that I can retrieve the files themselves.

It appears that iCloud went into Dropbox and replaced the Dropbox links with aliases, but they still say that the actual files are in the Dropbox cloud and not in the iCloud. So what I am asking you is where then are my actual Dropbox files now, and is there some way Dropbox can make them available to me? By the way, what I've discovered by rummaging the internet and iCloud is that these are called "icloud synchronization files," if that is any help.