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I've only noticed now but Dropbox on Mac no longer displays green ticks for files and folders in the Dropbox folder.
It also no longer displays the blue ticks for files synced 'only-only'.
Did the Dropbox team change something or is this a bug?
Using Dropbox Pro plan.
I see, thanks, @shinbeth.
Can you please try the following steps to see if they help?
Let me know how it goes!
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Hey @shinbeth, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
You should have sync icons on your files and folders in the Dropbox folder actually, so let's see what might be happening.
Is the Dropbox app running/syncing as normal?
What do you see when you hover over the Dropbox icon in your menu bar?
Let me know and we'll go from there.
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Hi Hannah,
The sync is running/syncing all fine. The Dropbox menu bar is fine.
I restarted my computer many times, the green and blue ticks are still missing on folders and files.
Using macOS Sonoma 14.4.1
Thanks for the additional info, @shinbeth.
Was your computer's OS recently updated?
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I see, thanks, @shinbeth.
Can you please try the following steps to see if they help?
Let me know how it goes!
Hannah
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Yes Hannah, this course of action works!
I used to only do steps 1. to 4. but didn't think of relaunching Finder.
Relaunching Finder then puts the ticks back.
Why do you think there's this bug with Ventura?
Anyway I can apply this trick any time I restart my computer from now on, until the bug is permanently fixed.
Cheers.
@Hannah just fyi, now Dropbox ticks work all fine from the start of my macOS, but I still have to do your trick because if not, the green ticks keep on restarting every time I move back and forth or refresh the macOS Dropbox folder window.
So I to apply your trick again:
And only then, it works again fully with real sync of the green ticks in the whole of my Dropbox folder.
Anyway, that goes to show that Dropbox and macOS have difficulties to talk to each other.
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