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lukeneedshelp
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2 months ago

Stuck on indexing on Mac

Hi. I re-installed Dropbox due to a day of files not syncing. It's now not even indexing files. Any help would be appreciated. I've tried fixing permissions, only syncing a small number of folders, n...
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Hannah
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Hey lukeneedshelp, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

Did you notice that this started happening after some kind of update on your OS or the Dropbox app?

 

What's the exact sync status when hovering over the Dropbox icon in your menu bar?

 

Let me know and we'll go from there.

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lukeneedshelp
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

Hi Hannah - I've been on the new mac OS for at least a week now so not totally new. Thetoolbar says Dropbox 211.4.6008 Indexing...

 

Thanks in advance.

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