Unlinked Dropbox folder after restoring mac OS from Time Machine.

yes

all the same

main folder or single files within

Hi Hannah

the other folder is the same, no special options available.

Hi all

so – with the right-click options not showing up – it means that I'm stuck? 

any other ideas maybe?

thanks again

Thanks Megan

the first options with mac pref did not change anything, not even after reboot.

But I discovered this offer

 … would that help?

should I do that (with a free account)?

Hi all

unfortuantely I'm still struggeling with this issue and missing the files in my dropbox becomes almost a daily pain.

before going through that advanced re-installation I am still wondering: 

what about this complete dropbox in my finder which says: 

"THIS IS AN UNLINKED DROPBOX"

Doesn't that suggest/imply that it would be an expected situation?

…and that there should be a solution to re-link it?

Thanks

thanks

I'm affraid it's not that simple:

with such a "clean sweep" then I'll still have 2 folders and the thing that I'm worried most about is:

I am using a lot of links (mac alias folders) and that worked fine so far to & from Dropbox.

After re-installing all of it (and still or at least before having 2 locations) I am afraid it may screw up those links… and I'd really like to avoid that and keep them 

Currently it seems as if the links from outside towards a dropbox folder are referring to that "unlinked" Dropbox that appears like a Drive/Location in finder.

That BTW keeps me from re-linking via just changing the "folder location":

This "unlinked" Dropbox appears like a Drive/Location in finder, which means I cannot locate where it is stored, so I cannot move one level up, which I would need to because the new Dropbox folder will always be created within the specified location, right?

thanks again

Hi there

isn't there a way to re-link instead of re-installing, so that the linked folders would be working again?

It worked after previous system migrations (restored from time-machine), so why can't it work this time?

BTW

The reason that those linked folders only work on mac, but not in iPhone/iPad is iOS / macOS, so that can never work in DropBox on mobile devices as long as they are running different OSs…?

Thanks again

Martin

Hi Megan

I'm sorry but I tried to follow these steps and again ran into some issues, like this

But more importantly problems with deleting my old, fully offline, but unlinked folder/location – which led me to do more research and I also vaguely remembered that at some point (last year?) there was a change in the dropbox system, no?

The location apparently was a change to ~/library/CloudStorage and that's why it shows up as a "location" in finder and it behaves weirdly. It is not a regular folder, it is some kind of "Cloud Storage", apparently a category of its own, which means I can't copy it and I can't move it to the bin.

I could delete it, but that seems worth a serious warning that I can't undo this and I should copy things I'd like to keep – which I can't unfortunately.

So I'm feeling kind of stuck again.

For a moment I almost thought there might be a way:

– Unlinking/Signing-out as you suggested

– deleting the new "hollow" folder

– re-starting & signing in again

THEN:

– pointing the app in preferences towards that "location" in Cloud Storage, where the old, unlinked, fully offline dropbox is

That seemed to be too good, too easy – and it wasn't. Dropbox said it can't create a new Dropbox folder there, probably because my old one is still there and it can't recognise & relink to that it seems.

BTW

Strangely the right-click-options suddenly came back meanwhile – for the old, unlinked Cloud Storage Dropbox. But none of them worked, all lead to error messages (as it is unlinked it seems). 

So I'm still running around in circles and the problem is still not solved I'm afraid.

Next week I'll be travelling for business at a fair which is one of the main uses of my Dropbox to have content avialable on my mobile devices. I would love to have this solved ASAP to prepare for that with my Dropbox up & running again.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

M

Hi Jay

thanks.

The reinstallation seems to have worked now (even non-advanced), at least in the sense that the new Dropbox folder (conventional folder in classic user folder location) now syncs properly, all files are fully downloaded. That is one step closer to what I had and need, BUT:

Now there are two full Dropboxes (claiming twice the harddrive space) and apparently the old unlinked one (the weird Cloud Storage thing) is the one that all my linked folders point to and it is strangely the one that offers the DB-finder-options when right-clicking – which are useless of course, because it can't connect:

The new one, which is syncing with online DB does not have any DB-options:

So it still seems like there is sth not really working properly, no?

I'm still reluctant to deleting that unlinked CloudStorage DB, because there are tons of links that would become dead-ends and have to be recreated to the new DB.

Isn't there a way to relink to this (bloody) CloudStorage DB?

Thanks again

Thanks Walter

the advanced reinstall wouldn't include deleting the old unlinked Cloud Storage folder?

This "File Provider" option does not have to do with anything?

That wouldn't change the DB-location to  ~/library/CloudStorage (where that unlinked DB apparently was located before all that annoying screwed up system restore) …?