If you’ve already created a folder like that you can skip down to the second part below, Uploading to Dropbox. The first step, and you only have to do it once – is to create a Dropbox folder that will not sync with your computer. The steps and screenshots used below are from Windows, but if you’re using a Mac you’ll be able to follow along with no problem at all. Simply remove the backslash from your folder and file names to get Dropbox to synchronize them again.This detailed guide will explain how to upload files of any size to Dropbox without the need to have them always syncing with a PC or Mac.īoth the procedure and the software we’ll be using will work whether you’re on Windows or a Mac. Still, a backslash breaks Dropbox syncing. Backslash is the cause that certain files won’t sync in Dropbox You can use a backward slash in the Finder though. That’s why even today in Mac OS X you can’t use – for example – a forward slash in a file name or folder name. To understand why this struck me, you must know a little bit about OS X’s roots. Traditionally, in *NIX systems, punctuation like slashes and colons were often reserved for specific tasks and therefore called ‘special characters’. Then I found out that all files were in a folder with a backslash in the name. If all this is not the problem, they mention that you can use OS X Terminal to change the HFS+ system file flags, with the command chflags nouchg filename.īut even that didn’t make the red dot go away on my files. This can happen if you changed the system account name. Check whether the file permissions are set to a different user.Check whether your are using a proxy that is not configured for Dropbox.Check that your computer can’t get a secure connection.Check that your computers system time is off.Check that there is no anti-virus software getting in the way.
According to, this means they can’t be synchronized by Dropbox. All other files in the Dropbox folder were synced just fine. One day I discovered that certain files and folders in my Dropbox folder had a red circle with an ‘x’ in it on their icons.
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