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mrmrtno
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Unlinked Dropbox folder after restoring mac OS from Time Machine.

Hi there   I've been searching for a while, no solution in sight: After restoring mac from time machine, most things worked as before, dropbox was re-linked (had to remove mac and link again,...
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Megan
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2 years ago

Thanks for the info mrmrtno!

 

Got it! Initially I thought that the new Dropbox folder was empty. However, it sounds like you can indeed see your content inside your Dropbox folder, but they are zero kb, right? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. 

 

Also, based on what you described your content might have synced locally as online-only. If you try to follow these steps, in order to change it to available offline, does that work? 

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mrmrtno
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago
thanks Megan
yes, all there, but zero kb

so what you're suggesting is to try and sync/download all again into the new folder and then eventually deleting the old original (which is somehow "mounted" as a volume or sth..)?

Then I can use the new folder as before, adding/modifying stuff..?
  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
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    2 years ago

    Hey mrmrtno, I hope it's okay for me to jump in as well.

     

    You're quite right, that's how the process is going to be.

     

    Just to make sure that the new Dropbox folder works correctly, though, do you see all the Dropbox options when you control/right-click on a file?

     

    If so, instead of making all your files available offline one by one, you can also switch the Dropbox folder itself to available offline.

    • mrmrtno's avatar
      mrmrtno
      Explorer | Level 3
      2 years ago

      Thanks Hannah

       

      what's confusing me is that the SYNC options are exactly the opposite:

      Here "Available offline" is tagged and not "Online-only".

       

       

      What about

      – toggling that to "Online-only" 

      (should not change anything because that's how it actually seems to be)

      – then toggling back to "Available offline"

      shouldn't that make it download all files completely?

       

      Am I missing sth here?

       

      Thanks again

      • Jay's avatar
        Jay
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        2 years ago

        Hi mrmrtno, this setting is only for new files added to the Dropbox account itself on the site, and not for files that are already there.

         

        If you want to make changes to the Dropbox folder, you'd need to right click the folder itself and choose the appropriate option to mark it as available offline or online-only.

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