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Kasyan's avatar
Kasyan
New member | Level 2
2 hours ago

Dropbox is unnecessarily updating 40,000 files

Device iMac, 3,3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Tahoe 26.3.1 Dropbox App Version The latest Problem Just out of a sudden, with no obv...
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Walter's avatar
Walter
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2 hours ago

Hi there Kasyan - sorry to hear you're having issues with this.

Just to clarify, what's preventing you from working on the files that are being updated? Are you getting any particular errors when trying to open or edit them perhaps?

Also, did you rename or move any files or folders by accident while the Dropbox desktop app wasn't syncing and it's just syncing the changes now? 

Have you tried rebooting your computer and quitting and relaunching the app since you first noticed this by the way?

Let me know more and we'll take it from there. 

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