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Most of my files are showing as Zero bytes on desk top app
Most of my files are showing as Zero bytes on desk top app and will not open – Why? Mac OS Monterey 12.3.1 This problem has only started happening in the last couple of days. I've been happily...
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If so download them first and then they will open 🙂
Have have the same issue, and I Mark's (SuperUser) comment about SmartSync is not applicable/helpful (yet somehow it is listed as the "accepted solution". Have have 50k+ files, and most are reading Zero bytes on the desktop. Have reinstalled the Dropbox desktop app, un-sync'd and re-sync'd the files in question, restarted Dropbox, and restarted the Macbook. Nothing. Has never been the case before. Incredibly frustrating. Hard to believe that we havent had a Dropbox employee assist with this question thread.
I found a workaround of sorts that I will share now. The end result is that my files still do not automatically sync offline to my desktop (though that is the setting), but at least now I can open them directly in Finder (something I was not able to do prior to this fix).
Just chiming in here to say I had the same problem and then I right-clicked the main folder (from my Mac) and selected "make available offline" and that seemed to fix the issue and now all the files are actually on my desktop too.
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