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Viqhaas M.'s avatar
Viqhaas M.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago
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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 ?
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  • DOsinga's avatar
    DOsinga
    8 years ago

    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.

4pixels's avatar
4pixels
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Just found my full 80gb Dropbox folder synching which I'm guessing will takes days to finish. Would love to here when someone gets a solution to this.

Jane's avatar
Jane
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7 years ago
Hey there (4pixels), while this resource might be helpful in determining what’s happening,  let me quickly ask you whether you’re using Symlinks or referenced files as part of your configuration. If so, I’d suggest removing them, since they’d continuously try to update even without your input (& that could be a potential cause of syncing issues). 
 
Please include as much info as possible on this discussion here & I’ll make sure to check back with you & send you the best next steps to tackle this behavior. Thanks for posting us on the Dropbox Community & enjoy the rest of your day until we talk again! 

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