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Mark G.'s avatar
Mark G.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Perpetually "Syncing (3 files remaining)"

I recently upgraded to a new iMac (IS X Yosemite Version 10.10.1) and transferred all my files, programs and settings from the Time Capsule backup from my older Mac. Dropbox seemed to transfer fi...
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  • CanyonKid's avatar
    CanyonKid
    8 years ago

    Thanks for the help.  I also identified the files that were causing the trouble (in Mac OSX, in the finder, follow the blue 'syncing' symbol) and renamed the folder containing the files.  Problem solved.

Rishi P.'s avatar
Rishi P.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Shutting down dropbox and running this was helpful.

http://ismashphone.com/2013/09/how-to-fix-dropbox-sync-issues-os-x.html

I ended up syncing my folders one by one and very quickly narrowed the issue down to one or two problem pdf files. I have no idea what the actual issue with them was, but just I opened them, re-saved them under different names and then synced the renamed files instead of the originals.

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