Jamesgangcc Helpful | Level 6

PS There's no way to send you a screen capture of the message because it vanishes immediately unless you know to do that by reading into the future. 

Thanks, Hanna. I read another comment on another thread where the person said "you can delete the external" and I went into my Dropbox and lo and behold. There it was. I disconnected it first, to be on the safe side, then deleted from Dropbox. Of course I got the message "Dropbox can't continue to backup (sync) without the…

I'm in my fifth day of a sync after having to do a clean install of a new OS on my mac. 206000 files to go according to the download. What happens is Dropbox sees a file with an * or ! and stops and I have to go find that file and rename it. Okay, that's annoying enough, but I see that Dropbox is indexing and syncing my…