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Dropbox is re-syncing my files again?
Why on earth is this happening ?!? its resyncing everything again nothing has been changed why ?
I don't recall any changes to the OS etc. It didn't say re-indexing, it said updating and the number of files kept increasing. After one or two days it was still going like crazy.
I found online somewhere that I should delete filecache.dbx. I did that, restarted dropbox. Now it did re-index all files, but this only took a couple of hours. I've not had a problem since.
I think it would be nice if Dropbox would pay attention to this sort of thing in a more timely fashion for paying customers.
This seems to happen on my Windows 10 machine whenever I move a folder within the Dropbox folder structure (e.g. just grouping files, or consolidating folders). With over 600,000 files, this takes DAYS to finish. I've a 60Mbps Internet link and an M.2 hard drive, so I'm not I/O limited.
Come on Devs, why does this happen so frequently, yet take so long? I can understand the purpose, but it becomes a showstopper when you want to use/update files, and you can't use Dropbox for days at a time!
I have had a great experience with Dropbox, having had my 1TB 90-99% full variably over the last 1 year plus and no significant issues.
Only recently, in the last week or so, Dropbox decides to re-sync all files (~250,000) that are selectively synced on my work Macbook Pro every time I open my laptop for the day. It goes relatively fast (1 hour or so), but is a problem.
- Sanchez
Dropbox Staff
SEVEN PAGES OF CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS ABOUT RANDOM resynching of files & NOT one solution. The same thing is happening to me. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?????????????????
