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Viqhaas M.
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
Dropbox is re-syncing my files again?
Why on earth is this happening ?!? its resyncing everything again nothing has been changed why ?
- 8 years ago
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.
Colin J.4
9 years agoNew member | Level 1
I have re-started my laptop after it has not been used for about two months.
Dropbox has downloaded the file list and is now downloading more than 80,000 files, my entire Dropbox folder. It's as though Dropbox does not recognise the files that are already on the laptop and downloads the entire folder, rather than just those files that have been created or amended since the last connection.
This is not the first time it has happened. It ties up the laptop for 15 - 20 hours doing it and I don't have time to wait.
Very frustrating and makes me think of abandoning Dropbox which, in every other respect, is an excellent service.
Any help would be appreciated.
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