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Greatdane007
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2 years ago

Files take forever to sync from one Mac computer to another

I often (attempt to) use dropbox to transfer files from my laptop to desktop computer. Some days this simple process takes far too long. I just placed a simple 500k file in my laptop dropbox. The fil...
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Nancy
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2 years ago

Welcome aboard our forum, @Greatdane007!

 

After uploading a small file to your laptop’s Dropbox folder, can you immediately see it on the Dropbox website? I’d like to check which one of the two devices has this syncing issue, or if this occurs on both of them.

 

I’d also like to know the Dropbox app version you’ve installed on both your computers, as well as the name of the file you can’t see on your desktop. 

 

Is there any chance the file is being added to a folder that's been selectively synced on your desktop computer?

 

Keep me updated.

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