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petrusrung22
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago
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Sync is getting stuck and won't complete

Sync never finishes,  Every morning I check the status in the Dropbox app.  It's the same 26GB that never completes.  I am only using 32% of my Dropbox account, so it's not the size.  I'm up to date ...
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    4 years ago

    You could try finding and moving it out of the Dropbox folder petrusrung22 - renaming it might also help. 

     

    Have you rebooted your computer at all lately by the way?

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iancackett
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

I had a similar issue after the upgrade to Sonoma 14.0 this morning (MacBook Air 2020, 13”, Intel, running Dropbox v183.4.7058) but it seems to have resolved (at least for now).

 

After the upgrade, Dropbox did a complete re-index of my several thousand files (thankfully found no changes), then I got stuck in the “Sync’ing” situation with no further info. Was still going after an hour.

 

Noticed after loading Activity Monitor and sorting processes to show highest CPU usage that “fileproviderd” was using 80% CPU. Files in Dropbox show sync’d and available offline (green checkmark, my preference) however, but something was clearly still going on.


Since restarting, I notice a bit of ad-hoc sync’ing on startup (sometimes a few minutes), then it seems to settle down and show finished.

 

Must admit, I will be watching this carefully before upgrading my other (main) laptop, and might wait for the 14.1 release.

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Octothorpe
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Thank you iancackett, Megan , Hannah 

 

The problem seems to have been solved.

 

I tried deleting some folders and dropping them back in and it appears to have worked!

 

The icon is no longer stuck and I have the "up to date" message.

 

Thanks again for all of your help and suggestions

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