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mikeshick
3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Syncing 45,000k Files Indefinitely.
I have a business account, with just over 4TB of data being sync'd. I have several computers of various ages. All my computers are downloading the entire data set locally to each computer, since ea...
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
3 years agoDoes changing this setting in the folder's properties make any difference, though, mikeshick?
mikeshick
3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Unchecking read only has never worked. When I come back a little later, the folder will say read only again, just like all the other working computers. I don't understand read only setting with regard to the Dropbox app....but, no matter.
Interestingly, though, I did investigate advanced properties on the folder...to check that the owner of the folder and other user properties of the non-working machine matched the working machines. In doing so, I accidently gave full properties to authenticated users (I though I chose Administrators), and when I realized it, went back and took off full control. When I did that, my syncing went all the way down to 5,327 files and 20GB. And, it seems that new files from non-working machine or files from other machines are syncing much more in line with how the app usually works.
All of this is very confusing, and makes me wonder if there were some permission settings that simply needed to be cleaned up on the local drive.
At any rate, the problem is perfectly fixed yet, as I still have the remaining files that appear to not be syncing. I also was doing a massive amount of photo cleanup on the non-working machine, moving files and renaming folders for about 100GB. So, this morning, unsyncd files was around 100K with 200GB and all of that is syncd by early morning.
- Megan3 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi mikeshick, can you send me another screenshot of the app's current syncing status, please?
- mikeshick3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Please see attached
I will say, since I accidently messed with those file permissions, the files are syncing between any computer and the non-working computer very quickly...almost seamlessly as it should. Just curious why I cannot get rid of those last "5327 files" syncing.
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