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Starting and Syncing taking forever
Dropbox seems to be running really really slow and since it's how I share files with a co-author it's causing big problems. I rebooted my computer and it took about 20 minutes for Dropbox to finish "starting" and then it indexed and syncced in a pretty standard amount of time. I made change to several files and they haven't syncced yet. Under "recent files," the last synced file was 45 minutes ago.
I'm on a MacBook Pro running 10.11.5 and running Dropbox 21.4.25. I have no limits on the bandwidth and a speed test shows my current download speed at 230 mbps and upload speed at 15 mbps. The files I'm trying to sync are Scrivener files made up of individual txt files (so it's about 714 txt files). In the past a sync like that would take a couple of minutes max.
I have two Macs that are linked to the same Dropbox account and I use Dropbox to keep the files synced across the two computers so I can work on a file, close it, let it sync, and then my co-author can open it and work on it, etc. We've had to resort to emailing the file because the syncing is taking too long.
Dropbox states it will start slowing down with over 100,000 files (I think!) and anything over that starts affecting performance.
As you have lots and lots on Dropbox you may wish to consider using Selective Sync to take off folders you dont use often (https://help.dropbox.com/syncing-uploads/selective-sync-overview). This leaves them in Dropbox, but, not on your machine. So I use that for things like ISO's I use once in a blue moon.
- Mark
Super User II
About how many files do you have on your machine quitclaim?
A fix COULD BE to unlink and relink Dropbox - to see if your database is corrupt on the machine.I'm not sure how to check how many files I have on my computer. I keep *everything* in dropbox on my computer and according to dropbox am using 5% of 2,059 GB.
I'll try unlinking and relinking - thanks!
FWIW - Dropbox just finished syncing. So it's syncing, it's just taking a really, really long time to do so.
- Mark
Dropbox states it will start slowing down with over 100,000 files (I think!) and anything over that starts affecting performance.
As you have lots and lots on Dropbox you may wish to consider using Selective Sync to take off folders you dont use often (https://help.dropbox.com/syncing-uploads/selective-sync-overview). This leaves them in Dropbox, but, not on your machine. So I use that for things like ISO's I use once in a blue moon.
