You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!

When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

keynote and dropbox

When i upload a keynote to dropbox and send someone a link, it appears on the link in its components, not as the keynote. This also happens if i zip the file. This did not happen in the past and is very recent.

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jun 5, 2019 11:04 AM

Reply
Question marked as Top-ranking reply

Posted on Jun 6, 2019 5:42 AM

Current Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents are zip files where the .zip has been replaced with the respective document extension. This is also true of Microsoft .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx documents. Zipping them again won't buy you anything.


Dropbox officially supports Keynote presentations providing they do not exceed 288 MB. Google Drive/Docs has been known to automatically unzip Apple documents, and it may be that those cllcking on your Keynote link are experiencing this issue. This is something that you should take up with Dropbox, as they may have changed something recently that has caused this problem — without it necessarily being a Google issue at all.


There is nothing Apple can do about this problem.

2 replies
Question marked as Top-ranking reply

Jun 6, 2019 5:42 AM in response to irab

Current Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents are zip files where the .zip has been replaced with the respective document extension. This is also true of Microsoft .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx documents. Zipping them again won't buy you anything.


Dropbox officially supports Keynote presentations providing they do not exceed 288 MB. Google Drive/Docs has been known to automatically unzip Apple documents, and it may be that those cllcking on your Keynote link are experiencing this issue. This is something that you should take up with Dropbox, as they may have changed something recently that has caused this problem — without it necessarily being a Google issue at all.


There is nothing Apple can do about this problem.

keynote and dropbox

Welcome to Apple Support Community
A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. Get started with your Apple Account.