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NateVee
New member | Level 2
1 year ago

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...
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NateVee
New member | Level 2
1 year ago

And now that action is overwriting ALL  of those team files. Good grief. Good game Dropbox. 

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NateVee
New member | Level 2
1 year ago

I've hopefully paused in time. Told team members to pause > made them the file owner > and told them rewind if needed. Then I'll have to sync back from their single source of truth on those files. Although we can assume none of my changes were ever pushed and those will have to be dealt with manually.

 

I went to my backup I did before trying to sort this out. Recovered the files. Appropriately named a new file "F*&! Dropbox" and moved everything over outside of the erroneous outdated sync that is being currently forced after the unfortunate "remove from Beta" click in preferences. What a nightmare. 

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