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Why is Dropbox indexing on every restart of my computer?
Using a M3 Ultra Mac Studio, Sequoia 15.5, with Dropbox v239.4.8301 running on an external drive.
This issue has been an issue since last June, and I have been lucky to avoid any major issues ...
Hi Walter , has dropbox always re-indexed files in this manner? With my older workstation I never saw the indexing process whenever I completed the restart.
I'd say approximately 500,000-1,000,000 files? It's roughly 2.8 TB of data. Using the website - could you elaborate a bit more? Since I was working off of dropbox and exported data while dropbox was indexing, I couldn't move the file in Finder without an error about the copied version.
Also, after my own research the past several hours, is it correct that part of my issue is related to having dropbox on an external hard drive? As in, if I were to delay the dropbox app from running on startup and give time for the drive to be mounted and seen by the app, would it forego the indexing process at start up?
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIis it correct that part of my issue is related to having dropbox on an external hard drive?
Quite possibly - Dropbox isnt really intended to be on an external drive so it may be slower than internal.
However, I suspect the bigger issue is the number of files you have. Service can start rapidly degrading when you have over 300,000 files.
would it forego the indexing process at start up?
No. Indexing always happens because it is the only way that it knows what files have, or have not been changed.
