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Persistent issue: upload speeds are incredibly slow for years
Dropbox upload speeds are incredibly slow. Issue persists for years. Dropbox mods shut down discussions I have seen complaints from many people that Dropbox upload speeds are incredibly slow. Ofte...
Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey thecargocultnz, sorry to hear about that!
If you're up for it, I'd like to do some troubleshooting just to see if everything is working the way it should, or find a way to help with this.
Would you mind sharing your device's current macOS, along with the Dropbox version that you have installed there? You can find the version by hovering your mouse over the little Dropbox icon on your menu bar, next to your WiFi.
What's the location of your Dropbox folder as we speak?
Keep me posted, and we'll take it from there!
dropbox folder is in the default location ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox
Space on hard drive. Most files are either not synced or set to offline only.
I add a 275MB zip file and it takes a ridiculous time to upload - I gave up, installed 2 other cloud storage providers, uploaded to iCloud in about 3min....
And then eventually I noticed Dropbox had finished.
Of course, the new DB version gives no feedback at all about how much has uploaded - no progress at all!
It's literally unusable. If this is not fixed in the next 24 hours I have to cancel and move everything to another provider
