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serenke3
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10 months ago

Freezing and endless uploading and downloading of files on Windows.

Freezing and endless uploading and downloading of files. Restarting the program does not help, rebooting the PC does not help either. I use the 15Tb tariff, but in response I get a non-working servic...
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Megan
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10 months ago

Hey serenke3​, welcome to our Community!

How long has this been an issue for you? 

Have you tried uninstalling, and then reinstalling the app, by any chance? Also, is it possible that the files that have trouble syncing are using these invalid characters? 

Keep me posted, and we'll take it from there!

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