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Sandtree's avatar
Sandtree
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Continous indexing since moving to MacOS version

Long term personal user, update the app (currently 163.4.5456) a few weeks ago with the promise of deeper integration with MacOS (13.1).   Since doing this the app has constantly been showing tha...
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  • Sandtree's avatar
    Sandtree
    2 years ago

    PS. looking at an old article I also have tried the Log Out and back in again... it had a slightly strange effect to undo the deeper integration and move the folder back to its old location but then gave me the option to select the deeper Mac integration again and moved all the files again and started indexing again.

     

    This seems to have solved the problem as it's now said all files are indexed and up to date! 

     

    Maybe one to add to the help page

Walter's avatar
Walter
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

Hi radsimu, thanks for joining the discussion here and sorry to hear you're having issues with syncing.

 

Can you please send us a screenshot of the app's exact status and version as shown in your menu bar at the moment?

 

This will help us assist further. 

radsimu's avatar
radsimu
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Hi Walter. Thanks for reaching out so quickly. Can't help with screenshot. I switched back to the old version by signing out and back in. I did loose se data in the process, everything that failed to sync to cloud was deleted without any question from the /Library location. Then the old version (the not "deeply integrated" one) brought everything from cloud back to the normal (old) location of the dropbox folder.

The "deeply integrated version" would not sync. It kept saying that it is indexing 8 files. I explored every corner of the dropbox folder to check for any icons that may have some unusual icons. All had a regular grey cloud icon on them. Other strange thing I noticed when deleting empty folder from dropbox, it took a really long time and a message showed up saying that dropbox is downloading some file and it can't be open until it is done. Very strange, seems very unstable to me. lost some files in all of this

  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
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    2 years ago

    Hi from me as well, radsimu. 

     

    Is your desktop app currently up to date, or is it still syncing/indexing some updates? 

     

    Also, regarding the missing files that you mention, can you please check your Events and Deleted files page, and let me know if you can see any trace of them there?

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