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gjwolfswinkel
Explorer | Level 4
11 months ago

App always updating thousands of files

Since a few weeks, my Dropbox app is always updating thousands of files, whenever my computer is started, taken out of sleep or hibernation. I think it started after I used Dropbox to briefly store a...
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  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    11 months ago

    Hi gjwolfswinkel, thanks for the screenshots! 

     

    It seems you're using the beta version of our app. To eliminate the possibility of this causing the syncing issue, can you try going into your account settings on the Dropbox website, and turning Early releases off?

     

     After that, install one of the stable builds of the Dropbox application.

gjwolfswinkel's avatar
gjwolfswinkel
Explorer | Level 4

Sure, here you go Walter. Hope this helps!

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Megan
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11 months ago

Hi gjwolfswinkel, thanks for the screenshots! 

 

It seems you're using the beta version of our app. To eliminate the possibility of this causing the syncing issue, can you try going into your account settings on the Dropbox website, and turning Early releases off?

 

 After that, install one of the stable builds of the Dropbox application.

  • gjwolfswinkel's avatar
    gjwolfswinkel
    Explorer | Level 4
    11 months ago

    Hi Megan,
    As an IT guy I'm always trying new stuff, I wasn't even aware anymore I had this set in my account. I have now disabled that setting and reinstalled. First result looks promising, no indexing and updating thousands of files after the first reboot. I'll keep an eye on it for a few days and will post results in this thread in a few days. Thanks so far!

  • gjwolfswinkel's avatar
    gjwolfswinkel
    Explorer | Level 4
    11 months ago

    Hi Megan,

    The problem hasn't returned for a few days now. Consider it solved 🙂 Thanks!

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