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Carl_in_MI
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago
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Syncing is stuck on my Windows 10 computer. Can you help?

I am running dropbox in Win10. I started having issues the last couple days with syncing. The icon would show syncing but the sync was not resolving. I needed to make some space anyway so I moved a...
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  • BurtBumsnatch's avatar
    BurtBumsnatch
    6 years ago

    Try using IISCrypto.exe and checking "best practices" then apply and reboot.  Worked for me

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jtl71
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Thanks - it seems to have worked. I'm a little cautious of celebrating too hard too early, as I've had these sync issues a few times now, and every time the solution seems to become a little more difficult!

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jtl71
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Aaaaand... surprise surprise, three weeks later here we are again, with Dropbox endlessly trying to sync a temporarily created system file that no longer exists. Might be time to move to another service.

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    jtl71
    Explorer | Level 4
    5 years ago

    Even the Dropbox uninstall is stuck now.

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    5 years ago

    Hey there jtl71; are you still having issues with this? 

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