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Captcurrent
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11 months ago
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The list of local Dropbox files on my Mac are different from the web

Ok when I started on drop box about when It first came out was good..  Several Macs. later.  and storage locations later.   the directory of files on dropbox is significantly different then what the ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    11 months ago

    By default, the files and folders should already be online-only when re-checking a folder, however, if this isn't the case, you can mark them as online-only manually.

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Mark
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11 months ago

Is Dropbox running on your machine? 

However, if it ISNT and you have had a drive disconnect you probably want to backup what is stored locally first as there is a very, very good chance it will wipe things.

If it is running what does it say if you mouse over its icon on the status bar. 

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