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If you find your Dropbox is stuck at 100% CPU and constantly ‘Downloading\u00a0file list’ on your Mac, and you’ve tried all of the unlink\/re-link suggestions,\u00a0be sure to check you don’t have a symbolic link in your Dropbox folders.<\/p>\n

I did (from a downloaded website backup), and my Dropbox was stuck synching for weeks.<\/p>\n

Run the following from Terminal to search for symbolic links, then delete them (or zip up the folder in my case, then delete the files).<\/p>\n

cd ~\/Dropbox
\nfind . -type l<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you find your Dropbox is stuck at 100% CPU and constantly ‘Downloading\u00a0file list’ on your Mac, and you’ve tried all of the unlink\/re-link suggestions,\u00a0be sure to check you don’t have a symbolic link in your Dropbox folders. I did (from a downloaded website backup), and my Dropbox was stuck synching for weeks. 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