"tmp.drivedownload" Error - unable to resolve with tech support escalation

Hi Jay - I was not able to delete this folder using Windows file management, which made it even more wierd. However, I did just manage to delete it using the web interface! Mine was empty, possibly because I was clicking "cancel" on the popup. 

I'll observe this over the next few days and see if the popup happens again. But I'm still worried about discovering missing files in future. And none of this explains why others found files deleted from the share, and in their own recycling bins. 

While it looks like we can close this thread for now, I still think there's more that needs investigating here.

Thanks for the help! May I suggest you update the tech support guidelines to avoid the painful frustration I've experienced with them over this.

Sincerely,

Gabby

 I have a similar issue - but I want to sync a folder to both Google Drive and Dropbox - It works fine, except Dropbox has an issue trying to sync the .tmp.drivedownload file.

It would be perfect if we could simply tell Dropbox to ignore .tmp.drivedownload files.  The problem would be solved!  However, there appears to be no way to actually excludes specific file types in Dropbox, unless you go through each folder within the selective synce options (which would take too long as I have many folders!)

So - my request is that we should be allowed to have a "master list" of files we can simply tell Dropbox not to sync - one of these would be .tmp.drivedownload  

I could not sync over 30,000 files for days. I did the following three things and Dropbox synced within 10 minutes: 1) As I have the google drive app on my computer (part of my workplace) I paused syncing (using the Google drive taskbar icon). Google drive was trying to sync >60,000 files for some reason. 2) I found a "tmp.driveupload" folder in my Dropbox that also seems to be a Google drive folder - similar to threads that discuss a "tmp.drivedownload" folder...I deleted it; 3) I had a "pictures" folder in my Dropbox as a backup of folders and also one in my C\users\"username"\documents\   folder. I renamed that folder in Dropbox  to "Pictures_Dropbox". 

I had previously tried updating Dropbox (it did so successfully); rebooting my desktop (including shutting it down & restarting the Windows 10 64 bit computer), and pausing and restarting Dropbox Sync from the taskbar icon - all done numerous time to no benefit. 

I think from this experience and what I've read in other threads that Google drive or syncing or ? pictures can prevent Dropbox from syncing. I'd note that Dropbox syncs fine on my laptop that does not run Google drive in the background.  Hope this helps someone. 

Hey Djbirnbaum1 , welcome to our Community! 

You can see more about selective sync conflicts, how to prevent them from happening and what you can do about them at this Help Center article.

Are the conflicts duplicated content? Have you tried manually removing them? 

Let me know more!