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skyflyer
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

Dropbox not syncing files on Mac OS Catalina; No finder integration icons are visible

I'm running Dropbox version v96.4.172 on Mac OS Catalina (10.15.4) - iMac. I have the same OS setup on a Macbook where it works fine.   I tried reinstalling Dropbox several times, restarting the ...
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    skyflyer
    5 years ago

    I got another idea. My iMac has two disks - one smaller and one larger. Since my profile is quite big, I have it on /Volumes/SecondDisk/Users/miha

     

    And I have a symlink from /Users/miha to /Volumes/SecondDisk/Users/miha.

     

    Dropbox naturally created a `Dropbox` folder under /Users/miha/Dropbox and it seems that symlink was causing issues for Dropbox. I then configured dropbox to use /Volumes/SecondDisk/Users/miha and it seems to work. Even finder icons came back.

     

    So much for pathos :)

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skyflyer
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

I downloaded `fswatch` to see if OS would trigger notification for changes in the Dropbox folder and ran it; I see that fswatch successfully identifies changed/new/deleted files, so Dropbox should be able to pick them up as well.

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