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stuartcalder
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12 months ago

Unable to make all my files available offline onto new Mac

I've got a new iMac after the old one has just given up the ghost. All my files are fortunately backed up on Dropbox.  My back-up drive was unfortunately corrupted.  I've installed Dropbox on the new...
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Walter
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12 months ago

Hey there stuartcalder - sorry to hear you're having issues with this.

Did you try selecting your whole Dropbox folder and making it available offline and/or online-only and vice-versa to see if it makes any difference? 

Otherwise, you can try copying or moving those zero-bytes files to another location and then back into your Dropbox folder.

In any case, please keep us posted, Stuart. 

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