Need to see if your shared folder is taking up space on your dropbox 👨💻? Find out how to check here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
My laptop doesn't show up in my connected devices list, even though it's syncing files
Having trouble with dropbox not seeing a device. As in, if you go to settings and then click Security - you scroll down and it shows your device list and the devices that have been removed from list....
Hi Nancy - yes, I had to relaunch the dropbox to get it back to the system tray - and yes it's there now.
I might have fixed it using the link with the overlay info - but I don't want to speak too soon. I'm letting things sync (I think!) so I'll come back after double checking some things.
Thanks Nancy!
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey annml, thanks for reaching out to us.
This is a quite strange issue indeed, but let's see what we can find.
Just to confirm, is the Dropbox app linked to the same Dropbox account as your browser?
You'll find the email address of the linked account in the "account" tab in your Dropbox preferences.
Also, if you go to the "backups" tab in the preferences, do you see an option to enable backup?
If not, what do you see instead?
Let me know and we'll go from there.
Hi Hannah - thanks so much for replying!
-- Yes same account on browser vs app
-- When I look at preferences, I see "This PC" and then to the far right I see "manage backups". If I click on that, I eventually get to a "get started" button -- clicking that brings me to a window where I can "choose files" and I can select "more". When I go to select the files, it lists the name of my old desktop. I don't have an option to select files from the new laptop I'm on.
-- I don't see "enable backup" anywhere.
-- And just checked again on browser -- if I click Security and scroll down, it sees only my phone and my old PC
-- Also tried a suggestion from my phone's dropbox app - it said go to dropbox.com/connect. I tried that using the laptop that I want to connect to but it was still not listed in devices after I tried that
Thanks!
- Hannah
Thanks for the update, annml, can you test something for me?
Add a test file to your Dropbox folder, allow it to sync and then go to your account online and check the version history.
It should show you the name of the device the file was added from, so let me know what you see there.
It was the same result as my prior test -- it uploads from new laptop and I can immediately see it online and on my phone, so I know it's working. The version history said "desktop" and when I hovered over that it said "annml" which is the name of my laptop. It's so strange. Another oddity is that I don't see any dropbox icons next to my dropbox files on laptop. Yet, it appears to be working.
