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Hi Annelie, You are welcome. Yes, sudo commands are Unix commands and this is why they apply to MacOS as well. I have not used Dropbox on Windows for ages and I would not know how to do to obtain a similar result, other than checking the permissions on the folder. I suggest that you ask directly a question and someone from the Dropbox staff will help you. They have been very helpful to me. Good luck, SF ... View more

I agree with you, but the Dropbox staff did solve the problem for me (on Mac). In my case, it was a matter of rebuilding the permissions on the Dropbox folder. I am pasting below the procedure that worked for me (please let me repeat: on Mac). This procedure involves sudo commands, which normally are suggested to use at own risk. I will stick to the custom and mention that you will be using this at your own risk  Good luck ************************************* 1) Stop the Dropbox desktop application (if needed) Click on the Dropbox icon Choose Quit/Stop/Exit 2) Open your Terminal app (Located at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal) 3) Copy and paste the following lines into the Terminal, one at a time, and press RETURN after each one. PLEASE make sure you copy and paste these commands (don't type them by hand), as getting them wrong could cause some harm. You'll be prompted for your computer user's password (not your Dropbox password) after entering the first command. Keep in mind that the password field in the terminal will remain blank as you type your password. After you type it, just press ENTER. You'll know that these instructions complete normally once the initial line of text (called prompt) comes up again: sudo chflags -R nouchg ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox sudo chown "$USER" "$HOME" sudo chown -R "$USER" ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox sudo chmod -RN ~/.dropbox ~/Dropbox chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox Please note that once the prompt displays, the instruction completed the requested task, and is ready for the next command. If the command returns an error, or does not respond after an hour, you may want to try restarting your computer and try these steps again. 4) Restart Dropbox from Applications ... View more

Dear Lusil, Again, it took me a few days to get back to you, sorry. I went through the Dropbox folders that were showing as synchronising, and opened several one by one. All files in each of these folder were already up-to-date (i.e., showing the green checkmark). So, I really have no idea of what Dropbox is attempting to update. Also, on the main Dropbox folder, there were files that were updating, and I am 100% sure that I had not touched those in a while. Finally, I am on a Mac, and so I have no antivirus installed. This all really started in one of the most recent Dropbox updates. Thank you, Salvatore ... View more

Hello Lusil, Sorry, it took me a few days to get back to you. I am attaching a screenshot of what I see immediateluy after the MacBook boots and I login into my account. The 4305 files are completely out of any possible realistic scenario  Thank you, SF ... View more

Hello Lusil, Same issue here: I am on Dropbox 85.4.155 for Mac (MacBook Pro on MacOS Mojave). Every time I startup, it starts to synchronise a random (and high) number of files, even when in fact there would be nothing to synchronise. My other Mac (iMac on MacOS Sierra), which has the same version (85.4.155) of Dropbox, has no issues at all. Can you please help? Thanks, SF ... View more