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Captcurrent
Explorer | Level 4
9 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
    9 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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tiffanywalkEr
Helpful | Level 5
9 months ago

You probably disconnected your external drive while Dropbox was open, causing the sync to fail. To fix this, close the Dropbox app, reconnect your external drive, and reopen Dropbox. This should sync your files and update them to what's in the cloud. If that doesn't work, try manually syncing from Dropbox settings.

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