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My edits in the old Dropbox folder didn't sync to the new one after Dropbox update (macOS)
The previous dropbox alias folder randomly stopped syncing or could have been result of running CleanMyMac - MacPaw and it accidentally scrubbed some program files? But pretty sure it was an issue be...
I've been auditing files. What's even more odd is the new app path and online seem to have reverted some files to an even older version of the entire file structure....going back almost a year...while others seemed to have synced in March of this year, except those were ones added via the mobile app...not desktop. Luckily I've been routinely backing things up. This is worse than I thought. Perhaps this is a result of upgrading laptops and for some reason the file migration happened and the application was giving a false positive that it was sync-ing? What's more odd is that we would have caught it sooner because we're working out of the same file structures all day everyday. So it appears things all of the sudden reverted to a later sync state.
Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi from me too, NateVee.
Based on what youâve said so far, I donât see another option than to manually merge everything to be honest. Since your team has already made updates and theyâve synced to your desktop app, youâll need to check the files in your old Dropbox folder and transfer your own updates to the files that are now syncing to your Dropbox account online.
As for the older file versions you mention, is the rest of your team seeing the same thing? What do you see at your Events page, or when you check the version history of these files online?
Bummer. Apart from the team folders my personal stuff is easier to sort out.
Ohhhh sh*t. Just clicked remove from dropbox Beta. That removed my old path file which was the single source of truth. Deleted. Gone completely. Sigh....
This appears to be the source of the multiple paths. I never opted in to Dropbox Beta in preferences. Brutal
This is the source of the problem.
My plan was to remove the personal folder in the new Path Dropbox. Then copy over the old path into the new dropbox. But I clicked remove from beta while perusing setting before the copy over. That overwrote and deleted the old path file and everything in it. Now what?
And now that action is overwriting ALL of those team files. Good grief. Good game Dropbox.
