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Cannot establish a secure connection
Your computer will compare your system date to the expiration date of our SSL certificate. If your system time is stuck in the past or so far in the future that it is outside of Dropbox's SSL certifi...
There isn't anything for Dropbox to fix. Issues such as this are almost always caused by something specific to the computer, and are not a wider Dropbox issue that they have control over.
Possible causes are antivirus or firewalls interfering with the connection, incorrect date and time settings, etc. See the following help article for more information.
https://help.dropbox.com/sync/files-not-syncingIn updated and related news, I went into settings and turned off Proxy. Bingo! Now DropBox is updating automatically. (This despite the corporate firewall that evidently exists, or maybe I just imagined that.)
Either way, your suggestions are much appreciated.
Had the same symptoms on my PC. Turned out that I was running a program called Fiddler at the same time. Stopping that and restarting Dropbox fixed the problem.
