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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.
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.
Sanchez
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorI do face same issue, once or twice a week Dropbox business re-registrate more than 300 000 files.
My team mebers suffers as it takes half day to get latest version of the files resently updated.
How to avoid this?So, it is nearly the end of 2018, this type of thing seems to still be happening. For the second time since I've had dropbox, I'm seeing a very long, drawn out re-sync happening. After a reboot, I was prompted to see if I wanted to have photos and screenshots automatically saved to Dropbox . . . almost as if the software was reinstalled or lost all settings. I am getting very nervous about unpredicted, unprompted resync's happening with my dropbox files . . . I want to depend on these files being safe.
So, why are these random resync's happening?
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
Hey there (imagined), apologies for getting back in touch with you with a slight delay. I'm merely checking back on whether you've made any progress on this matter; have you been able to resolve this concern on your end? Please do let me know on this discussion & I’ll make sure to follow-up with you asap!
I have the same situation but, my problem is much bigger.
I use mobile internet and have plan with 100GB for a month, and my Dropbox have 150GB of files. Now Dropbox is resyncing (indexing) 190.000 files, although i did not change anything. My biggest problem is not a time for syncing, it is data use. If I knew for problem like this, I would newer buy Dropbox.
