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msheppard
2 years agoNew member | Level 2
Won't stop indexing on Mac
I installed the mac dropbox update and the application began indexing my files. It has now been stuck for the last few days. I can only access some files. Many are now only available through dropbox....
- 2 years ago
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for your patience while we investigated. We have confirmed that the problem with resyncing has been resolved with macOS Sonoma 14.1. Users should not experience a resync when upgrading to 14.1.
Upgrading to 14.1 will prevent resyncing, but it will not resolve this issue for users who have already become 'stuck' on the resync upon upgrading to 14.0. We can help, but we're asking that users contact support for individual assistance.
Regards,
Ben
kurtrichard
2 years agoNew member | Level 2
Dropbox is stuck at "indexing" for weeks on my Mac (macOS Sonoma 14.0). Tried quitting/restarting dropbox, tried to pause indexing for a while. None of that worked.
- Hannah2 years agoDropbox Staff
Hey kurtrichard, I moved your post to this relevant thread, so you can take a look at Ben's solution here.
- Kurt S.42 years agoNew member | Level 2
Hi Hannah
Thanks, but has no solution. In that thread he only writes that want should contact dropbox and ask for individual advice.
- Teddy732 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
Hello fellow sufferers,
Another week has past. Dropbox still isn't working for me.
I had partial success, it did stop "Indexing" on a Mac I did a clean install (Sonoma 14.1) on and only installed Dropbox (v186.4.6207) and this made me so excited.
So I then followed the prompt and upgraded it to File Provider, this worked also, I was so happy!
Dropbox went back to "indexing" but I thought this will be ok, it will finish soon and everything will be ok.
Sadly that was 2.5 days ago, it is still "indexing".
If anyone has had any success, could you please share what you did.
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