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Domscillator
9 months agoHelpful | Level 6
Dropbox Not working after restart: Reconnecting to the internet. This may take a moment.
I have been experiencing a very frustrating issue with Dropbox the past few days. Issue: After restarting my Mac Studio (MacOS 13.6.5), Dropbox always gets stuck with the message: Reconnecting to ...
- 7 months ago
Hi everyone,
Just a quick update: we're rolling out a fix today that should resolve this issue. It's in Stable Build 197.4.7629.
As a reminder: the current workaround is to quit/close the Dropbox application and relaunch it.
Thank you!
Nancy
Dropbox Staff
MothraNOVA, 203.3.4712 is a beta (experimental) version of the Dropbox app, so I’d suggest switching to the stable one first to see if the issue persists.
To do this, please disable early releases from this page and then download the latest app version from this link.
Let me know if that helps.
MothraNOVA
5 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Nancy, I believe you may be the cats' pajamas because I think that worked. Thank you so much.
- MothraNOVA5 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Well I spoke too soon. Swapping out the beta version of dropbox for the more stable one fixed the "reconnecting to the internet" issue but now I am stuck on indexing 520 files, and uploading over 1000 and downloading 1600 (sometimes this number fluxuates but it doesn't seem to steadily go DOWN and has told me it will take 2 days for the last almost 2 weeks--since I first started to have this issue) since I thought i solved the problem. And while it seems new files etc are syncing from my computer (like docs) to the cloud, I can't access any of the folders and files that I used to have living "offline" as well as online. I am not able to force a download of a photo for example, which used to actually live native on my harddrive in my personal dropbox folder. I honestly don't know how this got so fudged up but I am stumped. It is causing trouble syncing on all my other computers as well.
- Hannah5 months agoDropbox Staff
Hey MothraNOVA, thanks for the update here.
Can you try these steps to fix your hardlinks, to see if they help?
- MothraNOVA5 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Hi Hannah thanks for that. Was that supposed to do something kind of instantly, like i would see some sort of change? Because I do not see anything different. I am still kind of stuck here. I also don't quite understand why I am having
so many problems with dropbox.
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