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Andrew O.10
New member | Level 2
8 years ago
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Dropbox Issues with Mac OS Mojave

Users on Mac OS Mojave are experiencing an issue with Dropbox, their computers have become extremely slow. It works fine when Dropbox is not running. When Dropbox app is relaunched, it takes about 3...
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emendelson
Helpful | Level 7
7 years ago

y Same problem here. Dropbox works perfectly in High Sierra, stalls at Checking for changes under Mojave. Tried unlinking and relinking, reinstalling, renicing, disabling/enabling LAN sync, etc. No joy anywhere.

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Radweld
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

 Same here, checking for changes - hasn't sync'd in 2 weeks. Reinstalled, relinked, no difference

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    faxao
    Helpful | Level 6
    7 years ago

    I gave up: not working on Mojave, hence not using Dropbox anymore

    • emendelson's avatar
      emendelson
      Helpful | Level 7
      7 years ago

      I seem to have solved this, but it took a lot of effort, and I'm not sure what worked. This seems to have done it:

      Unlink the computer and delete the Dropbox app.

      Rename the ~/Dropbox folder (or copy it somewhere else).

      Delete all the files in the hidden ~/.Dropbox folder.

      Then download Dropbox and let it download all your files. You can interrupt the download and copy some or all of the files from the original (renamed or moved) Dropbox folder to save time downloading. 

      After I did this, Dropbox seems to be working normally again.

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        faxao
        Helpful | Level 6
        7 years ago
        Brilliant ! That worked finally. Thank you very much for sharing !

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