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Steven-in-OC
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Dropbox Folder randomly disappears from the MacOS Finder. If I force quit it shows up.

I am using the latest version of MacOS, Ventura 13.0. I am using the latest version of the Dropbox desktop app, V160.4.4703. The Dropbox folder appears in the new place in the Finder under Locati...
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Laurence S.4
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

After a week away with my Mac turned off, came back, restarted with an update to 13.6 and Dropbox had disappeared again from Locations on 1/10/2023 so I put it back from ~/library/CloudStorage. iMac Ventura 13.6, Dropbox 184.3.6480

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larry218
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

I updated to MacOS Ventura in July.  Thanks to Dropbox, I keep all of my work in the cloud in dropbox folders and have about a dozen of them in my finder sidebar.  Yesterday, for the 2nd time since I set this up, all of the dropbox folders in the sidebar disappeared.  In yesterday's instance, they were missing from new finder windows, but still appeared and were functional in the finder windows that were previously opened.  I shut the computer all the way down, and the main dropbox folder was still in the sidebar, but all of the sub-folders were missing.   I was a long Mojave holdout (until July) and this never happened on Mojave.

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