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lynmac
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4 years ago
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Outage Oct 30 2022?

Seem to be getting an error message repeatedly telling me dropbox has to restart.  Anyone else?  
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    lynmac
    4 years ago

    Megan Walter 

     

    Exciting News!!!

     

    Installed an older version of Dropbox (went back to August 2022), no restart, no pausing of the antivirus.  

    Launched the desktop app and presto, it started syncing!  

     

    Result:  Everything is as it should be!!

     

    Re-installed v160.4.4703 and everything seems to be working fine.  Thanks for your help! 😁

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lynmac
Collaborator | Level 8
4 years ago

Walter , Thanks so much for the link!  Dropbox build 160.4.4696 installed and another hard reboot done.  Sadly, no change, the dropbox error pop-up persists. 

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Megan
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4 years ago

Hi lynmac, could it be any antivirus, or firewall that would be preventing Dropbox from launching properly? 

 

Could you try to disable them, and then try again?

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    lynmac
    Collaborator | Level 8
    4 years ago

    Hi Megan thanks for the tips.  I'm at least logged into Dropbox but sync history is showing it as stuck on "starting".  I suspect I'll get the error message shortly - and yup, there it is.    

     

    Oddly enough there's been no major change to my system configuration since I changed my OS back in August 2022.  If it helps, this all started when I was cleaning things up and moving files from my computer into DB.  Unfortunately, I just compared one of the folders I was uploading to in Dropbox to what's showing in my finder on my desktop there's a major gap -- documents moved on the weekend are online but not the historical documents.  

     

    Now I'm starting to really feel uneasy. 

     

     

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      Megan
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      4 years ago

      Hey lynmac, you mentioned you've contacted our Support team, right?

       

      Could you send me your ticket number, so that I can locate it on our system, and see the progress you've made with our agent?

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        lynmac
        Collaborator | Level 8
        4 years ago
        Megan
        Ticket #19335533 Still very much a work in progress

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