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RamblingHen
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2 years ago
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My Mac files aren't syncing and they all have grey cloud icons next to them

I have recently upgraded to a M3 MacBook Air (Sonoma 14.4.1), I can see all the information from my Dropbox but nothing is syncing, every folder and every file has a grey cloud next to it unless I cl...
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  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
    2 years ago

    Thanks for clarifying, and thanks for the screenshot!

     

    It looks like your files/folders have been set as online-only (for more info, you can click here). 

     

    If you select all of them and right click, do you see an option to make them available offline? If yes, this should download them to your hard drive once again, so that you can open them afterwards.

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RamblingHen
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

ha! just managed it but did not work out how to send a message with it. To answer your question, I used selective sync to leave the larger folders that I don't regularly need on the online dropbox version.

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Nancy
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2 years ago

Thanks for clarifying, and thanks for the screenshot!

 

It looks like your files/folders have been set as online-only (for more info, you can click here). 

 

If you select all of them and right click, do you see an option to make them available offline? If yes, this should download them to your hard drive once again, so that you can open them afterwards.

  • RamblingHen's avatar
    RamblingHen
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Hooray! This worked - thank you so much for your help!

    • Nancy's avatar
      Nancy
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      2 years ago

      My pleasure, RamblingHen! Give me a nudge, if you need something else.

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