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fooosco's avatar
fooosco
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9 months ago

Dropbox desktop app on Mac not syncing 1.8 GB worth of data.

Hello, I’ve been a Dropbox user for many years and have always been very satisfied with your service. However, for the past few days my Dropbox app on macOS has been stuck syncing around 1.8 GB of ...
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fooosco's avatar
fooosco
New member | Level 2
9 months ago

Another thing I just noticed while hovering over the Dropbox icon: the syncing speed is abysmally slow — around 33 KB/sec... (this data doesn't always show up). I guess that's the reason of the stuck syncing

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Megan
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9 months ago

Let's try a couple of things, to see if they're going to remedy this fooosco.

Can you try temporarily signing out of the app, and then back in? 

After that, I'd also suggest that you adjust the app's bandwidth limit to "Don't Limit" to allow Dropbox to use as much as possible. That should hopefully make the app sync faster.

I'll be waiting for your updates!

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