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me123451
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

syncing throttled???

I'm trying to sync 100s of GB of files to my hard drive using the Dropbox app, and I consistently get 0.0 kb/s download speeds. That jumps occasionally, but only for a few seconds at a time. Is Dropb...
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me123451
New member | Level 2
5 years ago
Yep, tried both of those settings, restarted and tried changing the location of the drive. Still slow. I’ll let it sit for a few more days and see what happens.
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Megan
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5 years ago
Hey me123451, wishing you a great Monday! 

Just jumping in here to check if syncing has improved ever since the post. 

If not, can you let me know the status of the desktop app?  If I were you, I'd also take a look into this Help Center article. 

Keep me posted.
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    themixnerd
    Explorer | Level 3
    3 years ago

    It's throttled for sure.  I'm trying to download a file that's 90 GB and if I do it through the app it estimates 2+days and I've had the file running for nearly an hour.  I got fed up and moved to the website.  It'll take 12 minutes to download.  Annoying.  Otherwise I never have to wait for large folders with smaller files.  

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