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Dropbox folder on macOS suddenly missing tons of folders which are visible on other machines + web
Hi all,
Last night I used the Dropbox website to upload a bunch of files and folders from an old / failing external drive. I used the website rather than my local folders because the total size...
Hey Huxley_D, sorry to jump in here.
This is strange behavior indeed, but we'll get to the bottom of this.
Can you check your selective sync settings, to see if you can see all your folders there and whether they are selected or unselected?
Hi Walter, thanks for jumping in!
1. The Backup page shows nothing - 0 files, 0 bytes of data
2. The Events page shows thousands and thousands of entries, because some of the folders I've uploaded in the past ~24 hours (i.e., web archives) contain a whole lot of small files nested in subfolders
I'm scrolling and scrolling through the Events, but all I can see are entry after entry for "you added XX files" - nothing has been deleted, which is good!
Huxley
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey Huxley_D, sorry to jump in here.
This is strange behavior indeed, but we'll get to the bottom of this.
Can you check your selective sync settings, to see if you can see all your folders there and whether they are selected or unselected?
Oooooh - this looks useful and relevant! It looks like all but a couple folders are deselected in the "Selective Sync" panel. That probably explains what's going on, although I'm totally baffled as to how it happened. In any case, I've reselected all of them and they're starting to repopulate in my local Dropbox folder. Thank you for this tip, you're a life (and sanity) saver!
Huxley
- Hannah
Thank you for all your kind words, Huxley!
I'm glad I was able to help. 🙂
If you need anything else, don't hesitate to let us know.
Have a wonderful day!
I'm having this issue as well, but it's requiring me to DOWNLOAD all 2TB of my data if I even want to view them on my Mac. "unselected folders will appear only on dropbox.com"
How is that okay? I dont have that much space. I just want everything displaying in finder, and downloaded if and when I need it... what has changed? its always worked, now its not?
