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Dropbox Not working after restart: Reconnecting to the internet. This may take a moment.

Dropbox Not working after restart: Reconnecting to the internet. This may take a moment.

Domscillator
Helpful | Level 6

I have been experiencing a very frustrating issue with Dropbox the past few days.

Issue: After restarting my Mac Studio (MacOS 13.6.5), Dropbox always gets stuck with the message: 

Reconnecting to the internet. This may take a moment.

Screenshot 2024-03-11 at 23.35.44.png

  • No VPN
  • No Firewall
  • Home Network
  • Fully updated Dropbox

The thing that is baffling is that :

  1. If you Quit and restart Dropbox it works immediately but if you restart the computer the issue appears again
  2. If you wait for a long time Dropbox eventually connects and syncs. But it takes a long time
  3. On the same computer, about a week ago, Dropbox was syncing instantly after reboot. 

I have tried already reinstalling and deleting the cache folder.

 

Is this a known issue that's going on at the moment>

 

Many thanks

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powerfoot
Explorer | Level 4

@Sam DBX  the workaround never worked for me either. 

powerfoot
Explorer | Level 4

@Sam DBX additional screenshots of issues. 

 

Screenshot 2024-04-26 at 3.20.28 PM.pngScreenshot 2024-04-26 at 3.21.18 PM.png

ehordyk
Explorer | Level 3

It's not working for me either.

 

UnhappyUser1
Helpful | Level 5

Absolutely, positively NOT solved!

hieroglyphics
New member | Level 2

Still no solution? I recomendet Dropbox to a new customer. I said onedrive sucks and dropbox is the solution. No i can't sign on and they want to beginn to work tomorrow. How hard can it be to sign in? Please do something

craynerd
Explorer | Level 3
Close dropbox and restart it is a temporary fix for me, it always seems to connect fine then. Just not on startup ;-(

Walter
Dropbox Staff

Hi all, thanks for your ongoing reports on this.

 

I just wanted to mention that our team is actively investigating this issue and we'll update you as soon as a fix has been implemented. 

 

Thanks for your patience! 


Walter
Community Moderator @ Dropbox
dropbox.com/support


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ehordyk
Explorer | Level 3

Current build 199.4.6287 solved the issue for me.

 

MothraNOVA
Explorer | Level 4

So its June now, and I am wondering if this ever got fixed because it is now plaguing me and my Macbook pro. I have tried quitting and restarting Dropbox, I have tried restarting my computer, I have tried resting my modem.  I'm using Dropbox 203.3.4712 It seems to only be a problem on this computer  (OS Sonoma 14.5, plenty of harddrive space) that I can tell. I have a Dropbox for Teams for my work as well as a Dropbox Essentials personally.  Thoughts? Do I need to uninstall and reinstall? How much of a drag is that going to be? 

Nancy
Dropbox Staff

@MothraNOVA, 203.3.4712 is a beta (experimental) version of the Dropbox app, so I’d suggest switching to the stable one first to see if the issue persists.

 

To do this, please disable early releases from this page and then download the latest app version from this link

 

Let me know if that helps.


Nancy
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