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RS-973
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

I freshly installed Dropbox on my computer, but it's not syncing

Files are not downloading. Reinstalling has not fixed the issue. There is more than enough hard disk space to fit everything. All files in the "Sync History" tab are "waiting to Sync". Ran...
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    RS-973
    3 years ago

    On a whim, I disabled Proxy detection from "Autodetect" to "No Proxy" and it has resolved the issue.

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Jay
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3 years ago

Hi RS-973, thanks for getting back to us on this matter.

 

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