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mwdiers
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Dropbox macOS Beta (fileproviderd based Dropbox) is an absolute nightmare!

I made the mistake of opting in to the Dropbox beta which is based on macOS fileproviderd integration, which the update notice insisted was perfectly safe. It is anything but. For the record, I am on...
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Walter
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Hey ilya1, sorry to jump in, but did you quit and relaunch the app and/or reboot your computer since you first noticed this?

 

Also, have you ensured that this is not caused by a 3rd party app like a backup or cloud service or an antivirus or firewall for example?

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ilya1
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

After 5 days, it appears that now everything is OK. And in it's place.

Resuming, The betta apparently will take between 2/5 days to indexing and sync all your data. For reference I have 50% of 2TB used.  Many many videos and pictures due my business. Took 4 days for me more or less.

 

Dropbox should add that general time so people do not panic. and take measures. I always have access to my files on my  iPad, iPhone  , but not on my computer, which for me its way more important . 

 

Everything is resolve now/ I think that is why its call BETA, right? 

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    ilya1
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    Well , now another problem

    Drobbox change the defaul adobe acrobat pdf file open , to DROPBOX. and no matter what I do, Every single files need to be change individually to acrobat defaul in order to be openned. Doesnt matter if I have it by defaul , it change them to open with dropbox by defaul again

     

    Change setting, restart the computer, nothing works

     

    Can someone help me remove the **bleep**ing beta and go back to the old version please, i definitly moving everything to onedrive. I am really dissapointed and have lost hours of work with the "beta" version 

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    ilya1
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    And this is the screen shot 

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