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gjwolfswinkel
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago
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App always updating thousands of files

Since a few weeks, my Dropbox app is always updating thousands of files, whenever my computer is started, taken out of sleep or hibernation. I think it started after I used Dropbox to briefly store a...
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  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    2 years ago

    Hi gjwolfswinkel, thanks for the screenshots! 

     

    It seems you're using the beta version of our app. To eliminate the possibility of this causing the syncing issue, can you try going into your account settings on the Dropbox website, and turning Early releases off?

     

     After that, install one of the stable builds of the Dropbox application.

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Megan
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2 years ago

Hi gjwolfswinkel, thanks for the screenshots! 

 

It seems you're using the beta version of our app. To eliminate the possibility of this causing the syncing issue, can you try going into your account settings on the Dropbox website, and turning Early releases off?

 

 After that, install one of the stable builds of the Dropbox application.

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gjwolfswinkel
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Hi Megan,

The problem hasn't returned for a few days now. Consider it solved 🙂 Thanks!

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