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Our files aren't syncing on a 2023 macOS Sequoia Studio, but are fine on all other computers.
We have now spent all weekend trying to get Dropbox to work. It's been fine for years but for some reason on Friday evening it suddenly got stuck syncing on one of our Mac Studios. We have tried abso...
We are absolutely desperate now. Nobody has been able to help. We've even had Apple help us reinstall the IOS but that wasn't the issue. Dropbox has had a complete reinstall several times over. We add files slowly bit by bit and it seems to sync then it suddenly gets stuck on a random number. We are in serious need of a top level expert who can actually log in and work out what's going on. Someone at Dropbox even marked it as solved. Nothing has been solved at any point. There's nothing wrong with our file names, we've spoken to 5 reps including some from the Advanced team and nothing has worked. Please, please tell me how to get real help! We need someone who actually knows what they are doing. This is a serious issue and we are in urgent need of real help!
Hi, I am having exactly the same issue! Have you resolved this? I have spent days trying to sync and back up my files which I rely heavily on for work. The sync keeps getting stuck. So frustrating! I too have uninstalled and reinstalled the Dropbox desktop app multiple times
Hi there, we hope that we've found the issue but only time will tell as we are adding things back in very slowly. The Mac created an automatic conflicted copy file and the file name has brackets and I think a semi colon or something like that in it. We weren't aware of it as it was a reasonably old file and happened in the background. It was one of the support staff at Dropbox that eventually found this out. We deleted it and now things seem to be syncing again. What is infuriating is that Dropbox never provided an error message to say that File X cannot be synced which is frankly ridiculous. Instead, it just hung up without telling us why. This sort of behaviour is beyond me. We didn't create the file and hadn't noticed it so we could have gone on like this until we gave up and moved to iCloud or some other provider.
We signed up for a Business Teams account in sheer desperation so that we could get a number to speak to a human being instead of waiting for hours and hours for a reply to each message. But this created a new problem. Instead of leaving everything exactly as it was and allowing us to decide if folders get moved, it created a separate Teams folder and now my Windows computer has X next to all files that were online only and I can no longer right click to copy Dropbox link or set files to online/offline only. Needless to say, we'll be cancelling it. I send links to customers 30 or 40 times a day and cannot manage without it. Paths of files cannot be changed, ever, due to everything linked to them and it causes masses of problems.
I hope the above works for you anyway. Fingers crossed it's worked for us!
- Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Hey SeoulGalVP, we really appreciate your feedback on this, but I'm glad to see you're on the right track with your issue.
As for your issue, MeredithHussey, can you give us some more info on your issue?
What's the sync status and version of the app when you hover over your Dropbox icon?
I have sent screenshot of the errors to the support team. I've wasted hours, going on days uninstalling and reinstalling the dropbox desktop app. Right now I cannot even log in which is really frustrating when I am paying for the account! And I use the desktop app for regular back ups. This is a common issue fro reading forums so I hope it is resolved soon with some clear instructions / fixes.
