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ThriceFive
Explorer | Level 4
6 days ago

Restoring to a new drive after failure w/ thousands of selective sync errors on my cloud

Generic PC Win 11 desktop Windows 11 Latest version Syncing Status: Up to date (no local files) I've been paying for Dropbox since 2012 - I have .75 TB stored in my Dropbox.  It usually works wel...
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Rich
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6 days ago
ThriceFive wrote:

... it looks like Dropbox didn't remove all of the old drive files though I removed this machine and asked it to delete.

That only works if Dropbox is able to run. If you had a failing drive and Dropbox wasn't able to work correctly, then it wouldn't be able to remove the files. Either it wouldn't receive the signal from the cloud to do so, or it would receive the command but fail due to the failing drive.

ThriceFive wrote:

I'd like just to use the cloud version of my work, but have to remove the selective sync conflicts that are spread across many, many folders, zip files, etc. Any suggestions?

Uninstall Dropbox, rename the existing Dropbox folder to Dropbox_OLD or similar, then reinstall Dropbox. Don't try to use the existing folder and Dropbox should just create a new folder and download everything from your account in the cloud.

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