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Dropbox is re-syncing my files again?
Why on earth is this happening ?!? its resyncing everything again nothing has been changed why ?
I don't recall any changes to the OS etc. It didn't say re-indexing, it said updating and the number of files kept increasing. After one or two days it was still going like crazy.
I found online somewhere that I should delete filecache.dbx. I did that, restarted dropbox. Now it did re-index all files, but this only took a couple of hours. I've not had a problem since.
I think it would be nice if Dropbox would pay attention to this sort of thing in a more timely fashion for paying customers.
Hi!
I have a Dropbox Pro account and also having this same problem. I updated removing some files and organizing some directories, but it started to resync all files. And it is stucked resyncing without updating the new files I have to work with my colleagues. I had to change to the old method of email to send and receive files. And it seems that it will take some days until it finishes, as I have about 980K files to resync. It is not limited by the bandwidth of the network, since it not sending and receiving so many files (I verified that it only sent/received few MB in the last hours). So, I recommend that Dropbox give priorities for the last modified files, instead of the resyncing old directories.
One of the consequences of taking too long to sync, is that some of the updates I did, to save space (some days ago), are now reverted. For example, I deleted some folders in one machine, so I think that this will be a change that will reflect in all other computers. But since it is taking too long to sync on that machine, the other computers do not see this change. On the other hand, the computer with the deleted folder is updated again creating that folder again. So, all the work I made to clean the space in that computer, is gone...
Since it is taking, and will take, some days to finish, it is very dangerous to do any update in the files of this computer.
I can understand that (re)sync may be slow because of the slow network. But I'd like to give more cpu power to the dropbox app so it can (re)sync faster. And also, dropbox must pay attention to recent files/folders first. Obtain and compare information of the complete directories and files (with timechange of the files) should be simple and faster (doing this without considering the content of the files). Why dropbox do not consider such files/folder tree first, and only then do the (re)sync of the old files/folders ?
It seems that my dropbox is stable now. I saw some posts about the problems of having symlinks and also about problems when there are too many files (more than 300k files). So, I removed all symlinks and zipped (and removed) some folders with too many files so that now I have less than 300k files. And now, it is stable for some weeks.
I suffered the same fate over the past few months. It made Dropbox unusable and I have been scrambling for the past two weeks trying to come up with an alternate solution. I think the only way I can make something work reliably is if I set up syncing in between my home server by presenting the ssh port through the firewall so I can perform SFTP syncs and access the files. There are plenty of file broswer front ends for things like mobile platforms or using it for storing files from cloud hosted services. Of course my computer has to be running, but it's been doing fine for the past 4 years. I guess if it fails it's just time to buy a new machine!
Just to add my name to the list. This morning it was syncing 8 files, I changed one more and now it says 490 000 files syncing. It doesn't show any recent changes on the client or on the web site, so I guess what's happening is that it is checking these files as to whether they've changed. Anybody from Dropbox wants to weigh in?
