I get an error message that Windows System Restore failed?

Sorry about this MartyBook - that was an oversight from my end to be honest, as I'm not in the position to advise on a 3rd party service (the FilesNotToBackup registry to be exact) and/or provide a step by step guide on how to remedy this. 

As you know, the team are aware and working on this. I'll make sure to update this thread once I have a more concrete solution for this - thank you all for your patience. 

Hello !! Sorry for my broken English . . . 

Same proble here, as a result we had made 2 times format our laptop, we lost days of work searching what cause the problem. Now we cannot trust to download and to work again with DropBox. It is very hard to understand that at 2019, a pioneer to the sector DropBox, cannot solve a problem which DropBox itself cause to its clients with subscriptions.

And not only that, the problem is not to its software but damage the Operating System.

Microsoft give a restore point option in order to feel safe in any hard situation and Dropbox not only canceling this option but have you to run, to search and to spend time, money and thoughts for NOTHING !!!!

DropBox in this situation, help you with a lot of SILENCE !!!!!

At least GIVE US A FIX BUT A REAL FIX (When our pc stuck at the point that windows restore point give us a message that cannot perform due to DropBox cache file xxxxxxxx.bat

I dont know what more i can say !!!!!       

Has any one made progress on this issue?  I discovered that I had a problem 7 days ago - but it took me 5 days to find this discussion and understand what is wrong (mostly understand).  I did start to tinker with the registry modification but I don't know enough and haven't seen any change from the one attempt to modify the registry (syntax probably wrong)

At this point, whenever Windows updates and trys to make a restoration point, my files go to the earlier version of the last good restoration point.  Then I wait until Dropbox downloads the latest version of my files.  The first time 7 days ago I had to wait 2-1/2 days to get the correct files in place (660,000 files had to index).  I have since removed a big cashe of files from my DropBox so these re-sets don't take so long.

I can command Windows to make a restoration point but I can't restore to that new point.  Dropbox has really gummed up the works here!!!

So I'm really suprised that Dropbox has gone 11 months with no resolution on this issue.  I'm sure it is affecting WAY more customers than know about it.  Dropbox is actually lucky that Windows is pretty stable these days.

You guys that have left DropBox, what did you go to? (I'm sure they are no longer listening in).

Thanks all

I am also having this problem. When will a solution be provided?

Dropbox have known about this issue for years. Solution should be fairly easy to implement but nothing has happened, so I wouldn't expect DP to do anything about it :(