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I have been experiencing a very frustrating issue with Dropbox the past few days. Issue: After restarting my Mac Studio (MacOS 13.6.5), Dropbox always gets stuck with the message: Reconnecting to ...
Hi everyone,
Just a quick update: we're rolling out a fix today that should resolve this issue. It's in Stable Build 197.4.7629.
As a reminder: the current workaround is to quit/close the Dropbox application and relaunch it.
Thank you!
Nancy, I believe you may be the cats' pajamas because I think that worked. Thank you so much.
Well I spoke too soon. Swapping out the beta version of dropbox for the more stable one fixed the "reconnecting to the internet" issue but now I am stuck on indexing 520 files, and uploading over 1000 and downloading 1600 (sometimes this number fluxuates but it doesn't seem to steadily go DOWN and has told me it will take 2 days for the last almost 2 weeks--since I first started to have this issue) since I thought i solved the problem. And while it seems new files etc are syncing from my computer (like docs) to the cloud, I can't access any of the folders and files that I used to have living "offline" as well as online. I am not able to force a download of a photo for example, which used to actually live native on my harddrive in my personal dropbox folder. I honestly don't know how this got so fudged up but I am stumped. It is causing trouble syncing on all my other computers as well.
- Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey MothraNOVA, thanks for the update here.
Can you try these steps to fix your hardlinks, to see if they help?
Hi Hannah thanks for that. Was that supposed to do something kind of instantly, like i would see some sort of change? Because I do not see anything different. I am still kind of stuck here. I also don't quite understand why I am having
so many problems with dropbox.
BTW, I just needed to send my resume to someone for something, aside from having to put together a memorial photograph slide show for a funeral on Saturday for my boss and bestie and I can't do either because my files are stuck in some kind of limbo in dropbox. I understand that you all are trying to help but I really would like to know why, after all these years of using dropbox with zero problems, having a personal AND a teams dropbox that I pay for, that I haven't been able to sort this out for days. And this isn't even the only problem I have. I am so frustrated. Every time I try to open a file I think is living on my mac, it just adds it to the queue of files that have been waiting to sync for the last week+
