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John98683
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago
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Dropbox stuck in Syncing.

My dropbox is stuck showing says "syncing" continually. There are no syncing in my Dropbox folder, and nothing is syncing. I have tried restarting the PC, restarting Dropbox, reinstalling Dropbox, an...
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    John98683
    6 years ago

    Fixed it. The problem is that Dropbox client application for Windows 10 OS needs ciphers to be in certain order.

    Once i fixed the ciphers it worked fine. This has not been a problem with any other vendor applications we run today but only dropbox.

     

    here are the ciphers you will need.

     

    TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

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Jay
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6 years ago

Hi Jorge4, it looks like you’re running the beta version of the Dropbox desktop application.

 

To install our latest stable version, visit this page and switch ‘Early releases’ to Off.

 

Afterwards, re-download the app from here and let me know how it goes!

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Jorge4
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

Did everything you said. Now I have v. 106.4.368

 

Syncing stuck at 183853 files after satrting at 183831. Am trying to fix permissions, see what it does.

 

Jorge

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    Jorge4
    Explorer | Level 3
    6 years ago

    Slowly moving: 197521 files syncing now, one hour after.

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      Jorge4
      Explorer | Level 3
      6 years ago

      A couple of hours more and the syncing got stuck, this time at 207,427 files, after fixing permissions. I'll try fixing hardlinks, but without any hope.

       

      Isn't there really a solution? Can't I get the program to work properly?

       

      Jorge

       

       

       

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        Jorge4
        Explorer | Level 3
        6 years ago

        BTW, I've always set NO limits to bandwidth.

         

        Jorge

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