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Dropbox not syncing even after reinstalling
So here's a doozy.
I've recently reinstalled my windows. My Dropbox folder was on a secondary drive, so didn't get formatted.
I have reinstalled Dropbox, and pointed it to the old dropbox folder....
Hi Walter Thank you for checking in.
Right before your message i decided to give it another try. Doing the same as i did before:
Uninstalling, renaming my old folder. Reinstalling, pointing it to the same drive, waiting for it to get done syncing and download, quit dropbox, renamed my old folder again, and started dropbox.
After indexing my 300k+ files, it suddenly started downloading and uploading. I have no idea what i did differently but i'm happy it worked out.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
K4Unl wrote:
I have reinstalled Dropbox, and pointed it to the old dropbox folder.
I never point Dropbox to an existing folder. The process that I use and has always worked flawlessly is to first rename the existing Dropbox folder to Dropbox_OLD or similar, then reinstall Dropbox and let it create a new Dropbox folder in the same location. As soon as it's done, pause syncing or exit the Dropbox application, copy (to be safe, copy, not move) the files from Dropbox_OLD into the new Dropbox folder and then resume syncing or launch the app again.
It will still go through the re-index process and upload/download as needed. There's no way to avoid that. But this way has always worked for me.
dear plz i lost( missing) my photos and videos of my family plz plz plz need help to get it back,,m trying since 6 months plz help plz
