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keri h.1
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago
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I changed my user name after installing the Dropbox app and now it won't launch

I have a new laptop (MacBook Air - M4), running the latest Sequoia. I migrated everything over from my former system, which included Dropbox. Day-1, all was running fine.  Day-2, I needed to chan...
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SparkyJ
New member | Level 2
9 months ago

I'm saying, A computer that has information in DropBox folders that have been populated during a time of inability to connect to the mothership can not be deleted. There needs to be the ability to resync and then delete afterwards always. The issue I am having is the resync is consuming every ounce of RAM available on the Mac making even opening a text file near crashing the system and syncing files ONLY TO BE DELETED asap is going byte by byte. and we are now on day 5 of a complete sync and folder delete process. Every time there is a power outage, wifi drop or permissions issue with a file (who knows why this happens) the whole process starts over. I am trying my hardest not to use explicit language here.

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