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burtonworldart
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Folders online not visible on MAC Dropbox App

Hi Dropbox community, I have several devices synced to Dropbox (Windows, iPad, iPhone, and Macbook) I have many folders and each are syncing perfectly except on the Macbook.   I am running Mojave...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    8 months ago

    Hi there, JeremyD, and thanks for joining our Community!

     

    Is it possible that the folders you're missing from your local Dropbox folder have been unsynced with selective sync?

     

    Check out the steps here, to confirm.

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JeremyD
New member | Level 2
8 months ago

Hi folks,

 

Brand-new MacBook Pro 2023 here.  For some reason, Dropbox is only syncing select files.  Oddly enough, it's not syncing 95% of the FOLDERS in my account.  (But syncing is totally fine on my other older Macs.)

 

I can see the folders in the online account -- but they're not appearing in the actual laptop files. 

 

Here's a screen grab (with files/folders beginning with the letter "H" for example).   On the left, you can see the folders don't appear in my Dropbox folder on the Mac ... but on the right, you'll see they appear in my online account just fine.

 

Any idea how to fix this?  I'd love to be able to access these folders directly.  Thanks!

 

  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
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    8 months ago

    Hi there, JeremyD, and thanks for joining our Community!

     

    Is it possible that the folders you're missing from your local Dropbox folder have been unsynced with selective sync?

     

    Check out the steps here, to confirm.

    • JeremyD's avatar
      JeremyD
      New member | Level 2
      8 months ago

      Ahh -- that's it!!!!  Thanks so much!  Everything is sync'ing now.

      Appreciate it!! 

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