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

Dropbox is stuck on a file I deleted

The "syncing" icon has been displayed on my Dropbox icon in my Mac system bar at the top of the screen for over a week now. Curious I looked at what it was trying to sync and it was a random file. I went to Dropbox.com and manually deleted the file (the .pgn file shown below). Now it's still stuck trying to upload the file for some reason, like it wants it back or something. The file it's supposedly uploading no longer exists, so I'm not sure why it's stuck like this. I've quit/restarted and it never goes away. Dropbox is syncing other files and working normally, but I can't get rid of this "one more file to sync" message no matter what I do. I used search and can't find a solution to this specific issue. Thanks in advance for any insight

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  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
    2 years ago

    Hey cloudstoragelover, sorry to jump in. 

     

    If you haven’t tried this recently, can you please unlink - relink your Dropbox app, and let me know if there’s a difference after that?

  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    2 years ago

    Hey cloudstoragelover, thanks for posting this here! This is an odd one, indeed. 

     

    Did you notice this behavior after a Dropbox or OS update on your computer? 

     

    What’s the current location of your local Dropbox folder, as well as the OS version of your device? 

     

    Finally, I know it may sound trivial, but have you restarted your computer since then?

     

    Let me know.

    • cloudstoragelover's avatar
      cloudstoragelover
      Helpful | Level 5
      2 years ago

      I restarted my Mac, sync message is unchanged. It's the latest version, MacOS Sonoma 14.0, m1 and 16GB of memory. Location is the default - 

      /Users/username/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox

       

      Thanks for any help. The TL;DR summary is it was stuck on that one file syncing, so I deleted it via dropbox.com as i don't even know where it exists otherwise. Now it is trying to upload it again for some reason. I don't even know where a file named "Messages xxxxxxx.png" came from. 

      • smallbizHokkaido's avatar
        smallbizHokkaido
        New member | Level 2
        2 years ago

        Having the same issue since yesterday with a Word doc that has been deleted, but Dropbox keeps trying to sync it. The doc no longer exists in the original folder, and my other computers hooked up to the same Dropbox account have no such issue, so it must be localized to my PC. 

         

        I've tried a number of workaround but nothing works, and if the file doesn't exist in the synced folder, I'm left empty handed. The issue this causes is delayed sync of other file - since the priority remains the Ghost doc - and also slowed computer speed in other apps. 

         

        Must be a recent issue. 

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