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MAC dropbox sync seems to be permanently paused.
On a MAC I have set the Dropbox offline folder onto a spare drive location as there is insufficient room on the boot drive. I have set the location permissions suitably (I think). I've ticked all the sync folders to auto sync. When I add files to the Dropbox folder anywhere they are never automatically synced. I can force sync if I go to Pause sync for 30 mins and then manually Resume. How can I get changes to automatically sync as they do on a Windows computer.
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Yes its the whole folder. Apart from the auto sync it works correctly. I don't know how anything about scripting - any clues?
- Mark
Super User II
Is this the whole \Dropbox\ folder you have moved? If so it should work.
However, that said, Dropbox doesnt play well with external drives - it doesnt detect the changes as the 'flags' for this are done. If there not syncing you can either run a script to pause/unpause which will reindex it or move it to an internal drive.
