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Barney D.'s avatar
Barney D.
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago
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The app is filling up my system drive, but not uploading to Dropbox

Help please.  Long time drag and drop Dropbox user without the app, but finding it grindingly slow and now constantly crashing.   I installed the app, but deliberately without syncing.  I need a ...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    4 years ago

    Hi Barney D. 

     

    You seem to be a tad confused as to how Dropbox works I'm afraid. 

     

    Dropbox is just a regular folder on your machine like every single other one - meaning it uses space and is managed/controlled by your OS. The only difference is that the Dropbox program than syncs that folder to the cloud. There is no way (via the software), or ever has been actually, to upload directly to Dropbox on a computer without using quota. The ONLY way would be to upload via the website. 

Barney D.'s avatar
Barney D.
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago
Thanks for the message. Sync is off. I want to decide what to upload and when. I use drag and drop, Windows 10 64-bit to my Dropbox space. During that transfer random files are missed, even when I leave the computer to do it with me inactive.
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Hannah
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4 years ago

But are you allowing syncing to finish before you check which files have transferred?

 

And what about the sync status, please? That's where you can see if syncing has completed.

  • Barney D.'s avatar
    Barney D.
    Explorer | Level 3
    4 years ago

    I have sync turned off as I wish to control what uploads and from which directories.  This is a problem that has only recently started.  I regularly upload as many as 2000 image files at once with never more than the odd one failing.  The current situation is ridiculous with as many as 30% failing dotted through the complete set.  What's more I cannot see any way of telling Dropbox to retry just those it missed.  I have to spend time going through the two lists to try again.

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