Issues with embedded files and cloud storage

Rhino
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I have some issues with embedded files.

Context
I use Rhino on a daily basis as part of my job. I work on Rhino files that other people need to use and vice versa.
I work on a Mac and use Rhino 8. The people I work with work on Windows and use Rhino 7.
We share files through Dropbox.

“Steps leading to the issue”

  • I would be working on a Rhino file on my Mac with Rhino 8, add some materials (embedding texture files) to some surfaces. I then export it as a Rhino 7 file on Dropbox, with, of course, “Save textures” ticked
  • My colleague, on their Windows, opens the file on Rhino 7, and get the “Missing image files” dialog saying that it can’t find all the material files I’d previously added.

I can’t really find out the cause(s) because there are many different variables to this issue but it feels like it might be something to do with Mac/Windows and Dropbox. On the “Missing image files” dialog, the paths to the files are from the Mac so I suspect that might be part of the cause? (maybe not…)

Anyone knows how to avoid this? Or any list of things to be careful with to try to avoid this?

I’ve attached an example file on the following link: TO DELETE - Google Drive
Your help would be very much appreciated.

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Hi Tsuk -

I’ve downloaded that file from your Google Drive and opened that in Rhino 7 on Windows. I’m not getting any missing image files warning.

Your coworkers, however, are using a file that is shared through Dropbox…
Could you have one of them download the file from your post here on Discourse to see if that leads to the same behavior on their end?
-wim

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Hi @wim , thank you so much for your quick reply and for checking the file.

As you guessed rightly, for my coworkers too, the issue doesn’t take place when downloading the file but happens when opening from Dropbox.

With this in mind, is there anything we can do to avoid this from happening?