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James P.45's avatar
James P.45
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Stuck "importing photos..."

My dropbox is set to auto import/upload my iphone photos, which it is doing. But it keeps telling me it's "importing photos..." and the menubar symbol is constantly the camera symbol that usually com...
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John G.139's avatar
John G.139
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Yeah, I am still messing with it. I plugged my phone in a second time.. boom. hung with About 1 second left importing. Blehhh.. It goes right back into it's funk. I noticed that there is a file that says PENDING_ in the .dropbox/instance1 folder. If you delete that file, Dropbox crashes and re-indexes when you restart it. 

DROPBOX folks, You got any input on this issue?

I am determined to resolve this by some means. I'll post what I figure out. 

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