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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 cannot find such a file, even though my hidden files are visible and I've followed through the paths found with several posts about clearing the cache. "filecache.dbx" doesn't seem to exist on my computer. I did find ".drobox.cache" with four subfolders.
(OS 10.12.4 Macbook, two different db accounts installed)
Have a look at your .dropbox folder in your home directory. There should be one or more subdirectories with names like instance1 or instance2. In there you might find the filecache.dbx file
Thank you! I did find it. Deleting those files and restarting dropbox doesn't seem to have changed anything, though - still a horrible amount of files syncing.
Well, what can I say. It worked for me. It did take a while though - it seems if you delete this file it does need to recheck all files and rebuild the database. But at least for me after that things became stable again. It'd be nice if somebody from dropbox would weigh in though.
This has just happened to me it says:
Indexing: 2617
Uploading: 11,028
Finally I was able to solve my problem by uninstalling, deleting everything and selectively syncing only the barest necessities, which was only about 10% my previous amount.
