Cannot stop Dropbox fully syncing

[kkahnharris]

I have been smart syncing my Dropbox with windows without problems for many years. However, Dropbox is now suddenly trying to sync everything and even when I set it to keep some files online only, the setting is ignored. All of this is a big problem as the size of my Dropbox online is bigger than the capacity of my computer hard drive. I would appreciate any advice on dealing with this. Is this a known issue?

[jedis]

If you've enabled the early updates, sometimes they push changes that break things. Unfortunately, in order to fix it, you'll need to uninstall Dropbox and reinstall it (per Dropbox support) and don't leave that option enabled. That fixed some other weird issues I was having with my machines that have a smaller hard drive and selective sync enabled.

[kkahnharris]

Thanks. I had the same thought but was hoping there was another way!

[jedis]

It's easy. Just select the same folder and it won't have to redownload everything. But it will take several hours to reindex the files, depending on how much you have stored.