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dropbearox
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12 months ago

Loads and loads of issues syncing sparsebundles and sourcecode on Mac Sequoia

I recently re-installed my Mac and want to restore my storage from Dropbox. All goes well, except for a herd of issues when syncing sparsebundles and folders containing lots of small files, like sour...
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Nancy
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12 months ago

Thanks for posting on our Community, dropbearox! 

I was able to locate your ticket in our system and I’ve left an internal note for our support agent, as well; they’ll check your latest email and reply back as soon as possible.

For anything else though, please give me a nudge.

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    dropbearox
    New member | Level 2
    12 months ago

    The problem got resolved after a support agent triggered a re-index of my entire Dropbox. I'm not sure if this is something I could have solved on my own, but it looks like the answer is probably a "no". I'm not sure what exactly caused these issues in the first place though, and whether to be careful with sparsebundles going forward or not

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