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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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Jay
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12 months ago

Hi janicetaylor, are you able to right right a file or folder in the Dropbox folder, to see if the Dropbox context menu items appear there?

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janicetaylor
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12 months ago

Yes, the context menu items appear on right-clicking a file or folder, as in the attached screenshot. The file has zero bytes unless opened, after which it posts the file size.

 

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