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Viqhaas M.
New member | Level 1
11 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
    9 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.

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Jane
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7 years ago
Hey there (Marco22) & (Rosemary U.), while there could have been a few things coming into play in your setup, I’d like to follow-up on how this has manifested itself on your end. If you don’t mind me asking, have you monitored the Dropbox performance on your Activity Monitor/ Task Manager perchance? What have you found there? 
 
From there, it would be worth mentioning that we recommend avoiding the use of Symlinks &/ or storing a large number of files in your Dropbox folder as a rule of thumb, since it can affect your syncing speed. I’m also wondering whether the amount of files you’ve currently synced on your device is surpassing the recommended 300,000 files soft limit. Have you utilized Selective sync at all Marco? 
 
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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nuss
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Is there a solution?  Dropbox is resynching for days, and therefore is consuming a lot of resources.  

 

I also find the limitation of 300,000 files problematic.  I am paying for 2TB a year.  Even if ther size of each of my files is 4MB, which is not the case, then 2TB storage is supposed to handle 500,000 files.  

 

Am I paying Dropbox for service that it cannot provide?

 

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