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The Dropbox app is trying to sync folders, and there's no option to stop that.
DB is trying to sync stuff in my Windows folder and I now have 15 sync issues. The "app" is about useless as mammaries on a bull. It lists them, then sends you to the folder if you click "view file...
Do these steps from Microsoft help at all in changing the index location?
These are files related to Windows indexing my file contents. Those indexes are constantly changing and I'm very certain I didn't change anything in Dropbox to tell it to backup something outside of the one "Dropbox" folder. I did change the indexing options about two weeks ago because it Windows Explorer search was taking 15 minutes to find a *.xls file, but the Dropbox problem is rather new, and the "fix this" option is completely useless. All it does is open a Windows Explorer tab and highlight the "Documents" folder, which is factually not where the offending folders are.
I reboot my computer every day, which I assume signs me out and back in again. I'll click on the "outline here" and try that tonight.
I know what the command line in Windows does, I thought the mention of "command line" was specific to the Dropbox app. I would still need a procedure and and syntax to enter into the command line to try to fix the problem. I can open a command line and then look at it you think that will help. :-)
I would assume that telling Dropbox NOT to sync something it is trying to sync shouldn't be a multiple step process and just a right click, choose the right Dropbox option. I don't want Dropbox anywhere near the OS, its purpose in life is sync five computers and make an attack "buy a new computer, load Dropbox to recover my user files, wait four hours, go back to work" affair.
- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
HI Stephen J.9, could you confirm the exact folder in which the search index is stored on your device, within the Dropbox folder?
Wait I lie:
NOW when I click "fix this" it takes me to the actual file:
this is the first time it has taken me to see the files and they ARE in the Dropbox folder.
When I followed the instructions to fix my Windows Indexing, it never asked me where to park the index information, I just assumed it was going to make it part of the Windows whatever that does.
