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dhayduk
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Dropbox "Connecting..." with VPN

Been using Dropbox for many years. Normally DB is connected and status is "up to date". And it had been then when I started VPN to the office, that DB would lose connection (not surprising) and would...
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dhayduk
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

I'm still seeing this with 181.4.5678.

 

Boot computer and dropbox connects. Start VPN and dropbox is stuck in "syncing" (next local change just stays at "uploading" forever). Restart dropbox and everything is happy. Disconnect VPN and dropbox gets stuck in "syncing" again.

 

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dhayduk
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

And "pausing" and then resuming syncing doesn't fix it either.

 

Sometimes I can toggle the proxy setting from auto to direct and then back to auto and then it might work. But that's successful maybe 30-50% of the time and so I usually just restart dropbox entirely.

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    alturic
    Explorer | Level 3
    3 years ago
    Yep, exact same problem here.

    Using OpenVPN.

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