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mwdiers
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Dropbox macOS Beta (fileproviderd based Dropbox) is an absolute nightmare!

I made the mistake of opting in to the Dropbox beta which is based on macOS fileproviderd integration, which the update notice insisted was perfectly safe. It is anything but. For the record, I am on...
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mattrp
Explorer | Level 4

Same issue here. Has been indexing for three days so far and not syncing. Killed dropbox and relaunched and rebooted several times. 

MacBook Air. 13.0.1

VictorYan's avatar
VictorYan
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Finally the indexing completed overnight.

However the file synced was two days ago and some app using data two days ago and I need to update the apps again manually.

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