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I have been having trouble recently opening dropbox files on my mac laptop, so I decided to make more folders available offline. I used the app's Sync and Storage option and selected a folder with many subfolders to download to my hard drive. It began creating copies of the subfolders. These appear to contain data, they…
Synchronization Problem We work as a team using Dropbox and store our data on an external drive. Everything had been working fine until now. Now my Mac is constantly indexing / syncing. It’s a new device, a new external hard drive, and I have a stable and fast internet connection. The external hard drive is formatted as…
Why? My dropbox files are less than 15GB My system is Tahoe 26.5.2 MacBook M5 pro
I have a personal account and a team account. The team account is hosted on my Mac running macOS Tahoe. When I try to log in to my personal dropbox the team account opens. How can I open the personal account?
Device (Macbook Pro M2) Operating System/Browser (if using the web) (macOS 26.3) Dropbox App Version/Browser Version (243.3.6933) Issue We are using Dropbox via File Provider on macOS 26. The message appears when a local file is made online-only. We see this with Pages, Numbers, and Microsoft Office files. Strangely, it…
Hello everyone, We're experiencing a recurring issue with Dropbox on macOS that affects several users at our company. For several months, some users have been randomly losing folders selected for Selective Sync. Without any apparent action on the user's part, many folders previously selected for sync become unselected and…
everyday I copy 6 files from work to home. everyday the time it takes varies I tried to use Applescript but, as soon as the file copy to the folder, the Mac thinks the files are there, but really, they are in copy mode. I need to know when the files are officially copied and the files all have the green icon.
MacOS: 15.7.7 Dropbox: 260.4.2926 It seems this issue has been happening for a while, when searching files/folders through spotlight or Finder, no results are shown. Making the files/folders available offline do not make them show up. I've tried the following without success: Spotlight Privacy > Click the plus and select…
Files originally stored in the /user/document/dropbox automatically moved to new location ~Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox despite after checking the Opt Out option while reinstalling. Despite I have tried many times to remove the previous version settings (see link below), I will see new files being synced into my…
I'm on a Mac and my files are saving locally and syncing to the cloud perfectly, but all of a sudden they are not appearing in my recent items. I have quit Dropbox and restarted it. I have also logged out of the account and logged back in. It reindexed but the problem remained. Any advice would be hugely appreciated. Thank…
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