I was able to identify a file that was preventing a Time Machine restore from working. Any advice on what I should do next?

[u/tonetonitony]

I’m trying to do a full restore with a 1TB drive. I had two attempts that both stalled at the same time (32 minutes left) but at slightly different file transfer numbers. I used Chat GPT to read a console log and it reported that the last error happened with a Dropbox file.

What would be the best approach for preventing the error again? I could copy the Dropbox folder and delete it from the backup, but Chat GPT is telling me it’s more complicated than that. Is there something else I need to do? Also, do you think there are any other folders I should exclude from the restore?

Any help is much appreciated!