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Doug49
Explorer | Level 3
6 months ago

MAC dropbox sync seems to be permanently paused.

On a MAC I have set the Dropbox offline folder onto a spare drive location as there is insufficient room on the boot drive. I have set the location permissions suitably (I think). I've ticked all the...
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Mark
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6 months ago

Is this the whole \Dropbox\ folder you have moved? If so it should work. 

 

However, that said, Dropbox doesnt play well with external drives - it doesnt detect the changes as the 'flags' for this are done. If there not syncing you can either run a script to pause/unpause which will reindex it or move it to an internal drive. 

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    Doug49
    Explorer | Level 3
    5 months ago

    Yes its the whole folder. Apart from the auto sync it works correctly. I don't know how anything about scripting - any clues? 

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