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gkmach1ne
Explorer | Level 4
1 year ago

Issues reinstalling Dropbox Backup from a Time Machine Backup.

Hi, I'll start with a bit of background: My 3TB fusion drive on my 2013 27" iMac failed recently so I replaced the HD with a new 1TB SSD. When I try to recover from the latest backup (from a ti...
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gkmach1ne
Explorer | Level 4
1 year ago

Hi Walter

Is there a way that that lets me link the Dropbox app?

In my previous screenshot (above) at top right in the menu bar, that revolving blue/black box that says "waiting to be linked to a dropbox account..." has been doing that for 72 hours.

I'm not quite sure how to speed that up.

Thanks

Gordon

 

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gkmach1ne
Explorer | Level 4
1 year ago

Hi again

Just to be clear, the dropbox icon in menu bar has been grey for days and has looked like this for days:

When I go to dropbox (browser) and check my linked devices the list looks like this:

which shows me that that the last time the iMac was linked was three weeks ago....the day my old hard drive died.

 

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