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currentj
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Dropbox freezes and crashes when I navigate in my Dropbox folder within File explorer.

Hello, I am having trouble with dropbox working through my Windows file explorer.  For some reason, within the last week every time I try to navigate to one of my dropbox files the file explorer cr...
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dglarseniy
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Finaly i see my post....
No need to make error when file cant be synced, add retry every 30 seconds, after 5 minutes of retry make it every minute, after half hour of retries make an error. Ur cloud drive is fast and good, really, but it is trying to sync so hard that it is killing explorer

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dglarseniy
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Now i dont know why it didnt slow the explorer, run into error, cant sync and successfully synced after pause.... Are u trying to add Skynet here? It doesnt like us at all from the dropbox use....

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    dglarseniy
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    Now it looks like i see the fix. Now it is in error that cant sync and explorer isnt dead, the question will it ever retry to sync this file? or i need to pause and continue?

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