Thankfully, once I raised the issue in our internal Slack team, Glenn Fleishman suggested a simple solution. It turns out that yes, everyone had been seeing the same syncing issue as well, but hadn’t become sufficiently annoyed to do anything about it. Since the whole TidBITS crew shares the folder that contained that utility, I asked if anyone else had noticed the same problem. I Control-clicked the PodBOT app and chose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu, and after a bit of digging, I found main.scpt. Since Dropbox places a blue syncing icon on files and folders that are in the process of being synced, I followed that breadcrumb trail to a copy of the PodBOT utility we use to post article recordings to the TidBITS Web site. One day, it dawned on me to look in the Finder itself to locate the stuck file. I followed Dropbox’s instructions for fixing sync issues but to no avail. I had no idea what this file was, and searching Dropbox for its file name turned up nothing. Other files continued to sync properly in the background, so it wasn’t getting in my way, but it was annoying to see Dropbox’s menu bar icon constantly showing activity.

How to Clear a Dropbox File that Won’t Syncĭropbox on my Mac had been stuck for weeks trying to sync a file called main.scpt.

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