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Normanvh's avatar
Normanvh
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Upload extremely slow

Since I've installed Sonoma 14.0 on my MacBook Dropbox takes ages to uplaod 145mb. Waiting for days to get my map sync and still not working. I've removed the map, put it again on Dropbox. I just tak...
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Normanvh's avatar
Normanvh
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago


Hi Nancy, Here you go.

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Hannah
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3 years ago

Thanks for that, Normanvh.

 

One more thing I'd like you to check is that the Dropbox app has full disk access. You can follow the steps here to check.

  • Normanvh's avatar
    Normanvh
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    Hi Hannah,
    sorry, I do not see what you mean. I see a whole list of items.

    • Megan's avatar
      Megan
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      3 years ago

      Hi Normanvh, from your screenshot above, I'm afraid that I don't see the number of files that you have inside your Dropbox folder. 

       

      Would you mind checking that, and letting me know? 

       

      The app's performance might start to decline when you locally sync more than 300,000 files on your computer, that's why I'm suggesting this.

      • Normanvh's avatar
        Normanvh
        Explorer | Level 4
        3 years ago

        Hi Megan,

        I don't know the amout but I have far more files on my Imac and there I did not have any sync problems. It all started after updating to Sonoma 14.0. I did not change the file directory because I was afraid that would give problems but I still got problems...

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