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strigimusic
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10 months ago
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Dropbox Stuck on "Connecting Components" Mac Desktop - Sonoma 14.6.1

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/efgcyj072mk1oog8l60oi/Screenshot-2025-02-21-at-11.00.09.PNG?rlkey=987xnlxx14hbmdbp0dwb84os8&st=rgbstwk2&dl=0 See image (I used my phone to upload it to Dropbox). De...
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    strigimusic
    10 months ago

    Alrighty, I think I might know what's happening. When I try to open Dropbox using Spotlight, since my external backup hardrive is a carbon copy of my Mac, it attempts to open the first Dropbox app that I choose in Spotlight, which, in this case, was attempting to open it from my external backup drive INSTEAD of opening it from my local Applications folder. For some reason, Dropbox app doesn't like that and it just loops in a never-ending loading. There's something funky with the indexing here. So, if I just wait for Spotlight to populate appropriately, it will let me choose the Dropbox app in the Applications folder. Then, it seems to sync properly. 

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