Selective Sync Conflict mess!

[WilliamLow]

Hello, 

I just did a fresh OS install on my Mac, with my Dropbox folder on an external drive (my startup disk is too small to hold this data). I thought that I setup my Dropbox correctly, pointing to the external drive and let the computer 'do it's thing' overnight. Next day, I see a big mess of duplicate and triplicate folders. To make matters worse, the folder sizes are different. 

I am guessing that I am stuck with this problem and need to track down all of the extra files, but this will set me back countless hours. Is there a better way to merge these multiple folders into one, without losing any files? 

I am passing along a screenshot from my finder window. How emabarrassing!

 screenshot with Selective Sync Conflicts

[onepissedoffuser]

This is just absolute horse**bleep**. I buy a new drive to merge and store files and the space gets taken up by this **bleep**.

Absolutelu **bleep**ing atrocious. What the **bleep** am I paying for **bleep** for???the mess dropbox created. A new 1tb drive