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Aug 3, 2024, 5:44:34 PM8/3/24

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I have lots syncing all day long. It is not uncommon for me to get back from a video shoot, upload 200 Gb (takes about 48 hours with my internet speeds), and then the next day, I'll need to upload a few 200 Mb files for a client. I need to prioritize that 200 Mb file, and I CAN do that in the task bar window IF I can find the file. The task bar does not give a full list, so if I can't find it there, I cannot Sync Next. There is a right click or control click function that also says "sync next". It is useless. Does nothing. So I NEED to be able to prioritize certain file uploads at any given time. I can't do that currently and it often means to resorting to Google Drive upload shares. Please resolve this by either (a) making the task bar search function search for not just what is ON DB, but also what is scheduled to sync (so then I can find it and "sync next", (b) make the list infinitely scrollable (not preferred as I'd have to look for a file name in possibly thousands of files being upped), or (c) make the right-click Finder option work the way it's supposed to.

I can't speak to the issue you're having (I'm not a Mac user) so I'll leave that for someone else to answer. I just wanted to let you know that I've edited your post to remove the mention of Selective Sync to avoid confusion. Selective Sync is a specific feature that's used to remove local folders to save disk space and is unrelated to what you're doing here. It's accessible through the Sync tab in Dropbox Preferences.

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I don't recall trying to use this function on any prior OS. I actually just started using the top-tier DB a few months ago when I realized I was going to have to expand my team and collaborate remotely. Until then, I had just been a casual user.

I have yet to get this feature to work on any files. Using the other task bar method seems to work well enough (not perfect as it still seems to sync some of the other files at the same time, so "sync soon-ish" may be a better name, but I won't complain further about that).

I don't mind dropbox taking a long time in the morning syncing all my files, but there are a couple files of less than a MB each that I'd like it to sync first. They are in the Apps folder. Is there a way to tell dropbox to sync these first, maybe by putting them into a special "sync first"folder?

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Maybe it's indexing instead of syncing ?? I wouldn't quit then back up again as it seems to be needing to do this again. Is this the first time syncing these files? if so, I feel for you. You will have to let it do its job. It will get faster as the smaller files are taking time to sync. We all users find that the initial sync is painful. Buts the beauty of Dropbox is the simplest way to sync in normal traffic. I've used DB for over 5 years both at home and at work and its been a very solid service. I had about 2 initial syncs when I didn't make a backup of files and had to sync 78 GB worth of stuff and it was painful. Just have a little more patience.

sync was done the same evening at 9 pm. Dont know why it got off initially, but hope it was the Sierra installation. The things done are changing the permissions (sudo chmod... set of command lines in terminal), unlinking and relinking the dropbox, having dropbox at default location, and keeping the network open in Systems Prefs > Energy Saver > Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when display is off. It took 6 hours on 800 Mbps up and download speed with everything already being there in dropbox and dropbox having 335 GB to sync or re-link with already downloaded documents. Next time I'll get a ticket right away.

Also I just cleared the cache again, I think it's stuck. that one file is less than a MB and I have already unlinked this dropbox and signed back in and it's still not synced 5 hours after that. I had hoped I could force the essential files through even if it needs to chew at some other things. Maybe I should uninstall the app and reinstall? not sure.

also found that this one file that wouldn't sync [there are several but that's the important one] had a red cross meanwhile and moved it out of the Dropbox folder. That was about 15 mins ago. When clicking on the menu bar icon so the controls open and then hovering over the menu bar icon a bit, it says that it is downloading indexing some 88000 files (getting fewer over time) and uploading this one file with the red cross that should be gone.

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 think this answer is a total fail to understand the impact to the customer. If you don't want to use diff tools to verify all the files are the same, at least prompt the user to select which files to keep and stop cloning directories. It's gotten so bad, I have conflict folders of conflict folders. My use case is 2 computers with dropbox folders causing nightmares. Why would we know that selective sync actually meant DropBox was deleting the folders locally? I will be looking for an alternative provider if this continues to be unresolved.

I have a ton of "selective sync conflict" duplicate folders that appeared out of nowhere. It seems that the duplicate folders have some files and subfolders within them, so it is not a matter of just deleting them. It seems from your post (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that it is impossible for Dropbox to simply merge all the files and subfolders into the correct folder. And instead I have to spend the next day cutting and pasting all the files and subfolders back into the original folders that they were moved from for some unknown reason. And the Dropbox page that addresses this error message insists that I "created" a new duplicate folder with the same name (which I did not do). So there is apparently no way to stop this from happening again after I fix the Dropbox problem.

After upgrading to latest version of Dropbox and enabling Smart-Sync I found that 5,334 Folders with 43,980 Files in them had been "designated" as conflicted. Then Dropbox started to "UPLOAD". I have no idea what it was uploading - I didn't ask for it to do anything different at this point, I just simply installed the new app. But the process took overnight on my laptop using an ethernet connection (it could not be done in less than a week using WiFi). Without a shadow of a doubt I know that your explanation of "Accidentally naming a folder/file with the same name" is inadequate and is missing another major systematic cause. I could NOT have "accidentally" named 5,334 folders with the same name. Nobody, with the possible exception of my wife, thinks I'm that stupid. After using and praising DropBox since its inception, I'm now afraid to touch it. Almost anything I do now (e.g. checking or unchecking Online Only) starts an interminable upload process. I have no less than 7 PC computers and 5 mobile devices that are all linked to the same Dropbox account. It worked beautifully (i.e. as I expected) prior to the "upgrade." I wish I had checked with the community before enabling Smart-Sync. By the way, since the late 90's I been using a wonderful backup program called "SmartSync Pro" from www.smartsync.com. How did DropBox avoid a lawsuit over the use of the name SmartSync?