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Huxley_D
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago
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Dropbox folder on macOS suddenly missing tons of folders which are visible on other machines + web

Hi all,   Last night I used the Dropbox website to upload a bunch of files and folders from an old / failing external drive. I used the website rather than my local folders because the total size...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    2 years ago

    Hey Huxley_D, sorry to jump in here.

     

    This is strange behavior indeed, but we'll get to the bottom of this.

     

    Can you check your selective sync settings, to see if you can see all your folders there and whether they are selected or unselected?

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Hannah
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2 years ago

Thank you for all your kind words, Huxley!

 

I'm glad I was able to help. 🙂

 

If you need anything else, don't hesitate to let us know.

 

Have a wonderful day!

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Raurele
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

I'm having this issue as well, but it's requiring me to DOWNLOAD all 2TB of my data if I even want to view them on my Mac. "unselected folders will appear only on dropbox.com"
How is that okay? I dont have that much space. I just want everything displaying in finder, and downloaded if and when I need it... what has changed? its always worked, now its not?

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