This sounds like an extension of the issues you are already experiencing. 
Something is not sinking correctly in Dropbox. Have you tried reinstalling 
Dropbox? 

> On Mar 11, 2023, at 11:44, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I planned to cancel my dropbox subscription and made a copy of everything in 
> dropbox and place it in iCloud. It totals less than 30gb. But, media files 
> like mp3, m4a, etc are problematic. Trying to open any media file in either 
> iCloud or the local dropbox folders is most likely to result in an error 
> message or just unable to open it. Its really hit or miss as some files will 
> open, others will not. However, everything opens and plays perfectly well 
> using the IOS dropbox app. I've come to believe that it is not dropbox' 
> fault, but that something is really screwed up on my side.
> I've never done a clean upgrade or install of the various OSX updates and I 
> thing that maybe my file associations are a bit messed up. That's all I can 
> figure.
> So, I either go back to Dropbox with tail between my legs and pay the renewal 
> subscription, or I pull my hair out trying to fix this media file mess.
> Any thoughts, feelings, admonitions, suggestions, quick fixes, etc?
> 
> 
> Sent from my IPhone
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