Dropbox never finishes spinning
If Dropbox never finishes spinning on your Mac, it means there are some files it can't transfer, or is repeatedly transferring. Sometimes this is because your network is too slow and your files are too big. Maybe check that first. Generally, if you have files over 1 GB in size that you are trying to back up, you probably want to have over 50 Mbps network speed. If however it is not filesize that is the issue, in order of drasticness, try the following: 1. Rebuild privileges a. Click on the dropbox menu icon b. Click on your personal avatar/icon c. Click on Preferences d. Alt-click on Account e. It will bring up a bunch of buttons one of which is repair privileges. Click it. f. It will ask your admin password. Give it. Depending on how many files you have, this will take a few minutes. I have about 1m files (really) and it takes about 10 minutes. 2. Find and delete linkfiles a. Open a Terminal b. Type: cd ~/Dropbox ; find ./ -type l -delete where "l" is an ELL, not a One.