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The operation can’t be completed because “Folder name” needs to be downloaded.
I am on Mac OS Monterey running dropbox basic. When I try to delete a folder I get the error message 'The operation can’t be completed because “Folder name” needs to be downloaded.' Also my sync icon...
Problem solved. I tried everything advised by dropbox support - unticking login items, making sure other back-up programs weren't affecting etc. These didn't work, so I unistalled dropbox (quit from menu bar avatar, dragged Dropbox to the recycle bin and did a clean up of residual items using CClean (free version), I also deleted the Dropbox folder located in the Cloudstorage folder (probably best to back-up before you do this) - to find where your dropbox flder is - right click it and choose show enclosing folder. I downloaded the latest Dropbox again and installed - during installation it said that it could not find the dropbox folder - I choose re-link. Now all the icons appear correctly (blue as syncing, green once synced) and I can delete folders within Finder - all my files are downloading/sycing from the online version, which will take a while, but everything seems to be working fine now.
No - when I right click the folder or files the option doesn't appear. When I first upgraded to the new dropbox - it said it was moving the dropbox folder to CloudStorage. At that point everythign worked, but I had to right click each top level folder and make them avail offline. But since intalling the latest Montery update I've had these problems.
As an extra test - I just deleted a folder from the Dropbox app on my Android phone. It deleted fine and the change immediately synced to Finder on my Mac and online.
- Emmet
Community Manager
Hi Lui Hepworth,
We’d like to check what’s going on here, would you mind if we reached out to the email associated with your community profile to look into this further?
Thank you!
Dropbox Community Team
Hi Emmet yes that's fine - thanks
- Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi Lui Hepworth, I just sent you an email, I'll see you there!
Problem solved. I tried everything advised by dropbox support - unticking login items, making sure other back-up programs weren't affecting etc. These didn't work, so I unistalled dropbox (quit from menu bar avatar, dragged Dropbox to the recycle bin and did a clean up of residual items using CClean (free version), I also deleted the Dropbox folder located in the Cloudstorage folder (probably best to back-up before you do this) - to find where your dropbox flder is - right click it and choose show enclosing folder. I downloaded the latest Dropbox again and installed - during installation it said that it could not find the dropbox folder - I choose re-link. Now all the icons appear correctly (blue as syncing, green once synced) and I can delete folders within Finder - all my files are downloading/sycing from the online version, which will take a while, but everything seems to be working fine now.
- Megan
Amazing news, that's what I like to hear -or read in our case- Lui Hepworth.
Keep an eye on it, and let me know if you need anything else, we're always around! 😎
Just to add - my Dropbox folder is now located in Users > username > Dropbox (not in cloudstorage anymore)
