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Files stuck "downloading", PC not syncing, CPU overloading!
A couple of days ago I noticed that my Dropbox sync was "downloading 11 files" for a long time. I could not figure out which files (because there's apparently no direct way to do so) but I went looki...
- In case someone in the future is having this problem: the Dropbox team helped me pinpoint the cause. Yahoo Groups recently offered to send a zip file of files from Groups that they were closing down, and I had unzipped this on my PC. However, these files had names ending with spaces, and once those get onto your system, Windows can't delete/move/rename them. Once I deleted them with a shell command, Dropbox stopped trying to sync them.
I am still with the problems after trying every thing on this post. It´s worst now, I unchecked the folders on selective sync and when I checked then back, they just say "downloading 3000 files" and does not do anything.
It´s only on one of my synced devices, the others works just fine...
Please help.
I am also having this problem. I have smart sync enabled. There is nothing that appears when I try to hold down the space bar. (Could that be a Mac vs Windows problem??? I'm running Windows 10 on my PC) I'm stuck with Dropbox saying it is downloading 49.853 files, and my CPU is so overwhelmed that it is slowing everything down exponentially and/or making it where the program shows as Not Responding. I've attempted to change the settings and basically make everything Online Only so it would stop attempting to sync files across devices.... That isn't working either.
PLEASE HELP.
PLEASE HELP.
- And could someone PLEASE update this thread so it no longer says "SOLVED" because obviously, there's multiple people who are having issues and the posted solution hasn't worked.
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