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stereosides
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10 months ago

I'm trying to back up 100GB of files to Dropbox, but it's super slow.

Hi there, I just started using Dropbox to backup 100 Gb of an external drive on the Cloud plus a few Gb from the system drive. I'm on Macbook & Sonoma 14.7.2 + Dropbox Desktop App. I've noticed tha...
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Nancy
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10 months ago

Hey stereosides! Thanks for posting on our forum and welcome aboard.

If you’re backing up files to a third-party app at the same time, then this may also affect the time needed to sync/back up your files to Dropbox. In general, please keep in mind that each file you upload/sync to Dropbox is divided and compressed into hashed components, transferred via secure data transfer, and then encrypted and stored on our servers. 

During an upload, the transfer speeds are also dependent upon how quickly your computer can process and compress the components of the files to make them available for upload. 

When saying you stopped syncing, restarted and you didn’t see any real improvement, do you mean that you paused Dropbox’s syncing for a bit or that you stopped backing up files to Google Drive, while the Dropbox app was running? 

Have you tried adjusting the Dropbox app bandwidth based on the steps provided in this Help Center article? 

Let me know if you need further help after this.

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