Migrated to new MacBook Air results in 11 unsynced files and slow MS Word.

A few weeks ago I migrated from an old Intel MacBook Air (machine no longer available) to an M3 MacBook Air using Migration Assistant. I am currently running Sonoma 14.5 and Dropbox 203.4.4857. I am "eligible" for Dropbox for macOS on File Provider but have not gone through that process.

 

Issues:

1) The Dropbox menu item reports 11 files have not been synced and will take 45 minutes, but they never sync. When I look at them in the Finder, I see the blue sync circle next to the file name. Thousands of other files have appeared to sync properly with the checkmark icon. I believe most these are documents shared with other Dropbox users who have edit rights. Other shared documents seem to sync properly, just these 11.

 

2) When working with a Microsoft Word document from the Dropbox folder that DOES appear to be syncing properly (checkmark icon NOT blue sync circle), Microsoft Word will eventually slow to a crawl with spinning beach ball.

 

I have rebooted multiple times, which temporarily fixes the Word slowdown.

I have downloaded and reinstalled the latest Dropbox app several times without uninstalling Dropbox.

I have tried renaming the unsynced files to simple names with no punctuation.

 

Per a previous thread suggestion here, I looked for duplicate Dropbox apps in ~/Library/Application Support/Dropbox and did not find any. The only Dropbox app appears to be in the Applications folder. However, I DID find "~/Library/Application Support/Dropbox Electron" (created 5/12/22 604KB) in addition to "~/Library/Application Support/Dropbox" (Created 3/9/2017 with 3.3MB). Am I supposed to have both these folders?

 

My next step, would be to completely delete Dropbox from the new Mac (app, files/folders in library, synced files, etc), reinstall Dropbox and let it bring down all the files from the Dropbox server. That is about 250GB, so I'd rather not if there was a better solution. 

 

Any suggestions to resolve the above issues?