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Dropbox sync stalling on Big Sur
Dropbox has always worked well for me -- until I updated my (very new) iMac to macOS "Big Sur" (11.1) about a month ago. The issue in a nutshell is that Dropbox will upload changed files for a li...
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Re: Dropbox sync stalling on Big Sur
I'm not sure what you mean by uninstalled, because you said it was still indexing? So I'm confused by that part. After you unlinked, did Dropbox ask you to re-input you account details? After I...
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Re: Dropbox sync stalling on Big Sur
I'm sorry to hear that. How long ago did you unlink it?
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Re: Dropbox sync stalling on Big Sur
Ok, time to summarize the situation. (Punchline: problem seems to be fixed! Here's how.) Side issue: the steps to fix permissionsnow work with an update to the Dropbox app itself. (Namely, op...
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Re: Dropbox sync stalling on Big Sur
Nope, I'm afraid the stalling behavior has not changed,Emma. You sure had my hopes up! I downloaded and re-installed Dropbox yesterday evening, then restarted my computer, but Dropbox still stal...
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Re: Dropbox sync stalling on Big Sur
Nope, not fixed Emma. I've updated Dropbox on all of the machines on which I have it installed, and these options do not appear in the Accounts tab of preferences when I hold any combinaiton of mod...
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Re: Dropbox sync stalling on Big Sur
No, it doesn't, as I indicate in a post above. I've seen this advice multiple times online, but it simply doesn't do this on ANY of the three machines on which I have Dropbox installed (two desktops...
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Re: Dropbox sync stalling on Big Sur
How did you do the latter steps? (Reset permissions and hardlinks) -- See my post above. How did you access those options? Thanks.
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Re: Dropbox sync stalling on Big Sur
That's interesting information. Thank you for sharing it! I have not, however, opted-in to getting early release versions. (How did you discover this?) You say you "Disabled that then did a re...
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Re: Dropbox sync stalling on Big Sur
Thanks for the advice Daphne. Actually, I found that advice over a month ago and bookmarked it. However, even though I've tried many variations on it, the problem begins at step 5: no variation I ...
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