Dropbox wants to upload all my files

Here's what's happening as best I can tell. I got a new laptop a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately I did not notice until a few days ago that Dropbox was not initiating upon startup of the new computer. When I initiated Dropbox manually, it tried to upload (not index) 94,000 files - everything in my dropbox that I've added for many, many years since I've used Dropbox. Further, when I tried to be patient and left the process running keeping my computer awake for more than 24 hours, the status was that it was still uploading 94,000 files, and I did not see any dropbox files change from the blue "uploading" icon to the green checkmark icon - even the very small files that I was told Dropbox checks first. Initially they thought it was a "permission" problem, and I did get some errors stating that about 62 files could not be accessed by Dropbox. Further, every single time I initiate Dropbox, it asks me to enter my computer password to grant access to the dropbox folder, which I of course do. I removed the "problem files" from the dropbox folder and now I do not get any errors stating that certain files could not be accessed by Dropbox. However, whenever Dropbox is initiated (either automatically or manually) the upload process seems to restart and it tells me that it's uploading (not indexing") 94,000 files. It's like an upload process starts and restarts for every file in the dropbox folder and never completes or even progresses. Also, even if there were "permission" problems with certain files, I was told those files would just be skipped and the upload would continue. So I am very frustrated and no one at Dropbox that I've communicated with via chat or email seems to know what's going on at all. I just need to understand WHY all 94,000 of my dropbox files over many years are attempting to upload every time dropbox initiates. I could understand if I had to live through the upload process again if I could see that if was actually progressing, but that's not the case. I just need to know why Dropbox is attempting to upload all 94,000 files when only a very few were added or changed, and how in the world I can fix this. With the files I have, it could literally take weeks to upload 94,000 files and I'm not sure how to accomplish that. As you can tell I am very frustrated and perplexed and in the meantime I have to manually upload any changes I make, since any new changes simply apparently go into the "endless" and not moving upload que for 94,000 files. I just need to have my dropbox files restored to the green checkmark and for Dropbox to not try to upload 94,000 files every time it initiates. Sorry for the rant.