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Huxley_D
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago

Dropbox abysmally slow - can't reinstall, can't sync, etc.

Hi all, I've recently built a new Windows 11 Pro PC with reasonably high-end specs (AMD 9800X3d CPU, 64GB RAM, 5080 GPU, etc.), and I'm trying to get it all set up the way I like. Everything is wor...
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Huxley_D
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago

Update: finally got the app installed, selected "Sync Everything" during install, and it is sllloooowwwlllyyy pulling files down. Also weird: I currently have 585GB of content in DropBox, but the app keeps insisting that I have only 130GB. Why?!

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