Dropbox resyncing even after files are downloaded onto hard drive

[jacksonallen]

my dropbox is resyncing to my target destination (external harddrive) even though the files are already on my external drive. every time my harddrive is ejected or dropbox is quit it has to resync (230GB) and I think its making an error as I cant do this everytime stuff is ejected or quit. how do I avoid this ? i am on monterey

[Megan]

Hi @jacksonallen, welcome to our Community and happy Friday! 

Have you made sure the external hard drive is entirely up to date when you try to eject it? 

Also, what do you see as the app's syncing status while it's re-syncing the content? Does it say "indexing" or "syncing"? 

Let me know more!