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David S.178
Collaborator | Level 9
5 years ago

Dropbox gets stuck forever syncing one file, on Windows

I tend to spend much of the day editing a very small number of programming language files. Once in a while I will notice that one of these files will stop uploading through Dropbox. There is no error...
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Lusil's avatar
Lusil
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5 years ago
Hey David S.178, I just wanted to check back with you and see if you're still having trouble with this?

If you are, could you click on or hover over the Dropbox icon that's on your system tray and let me know what it shows?
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David S.178
Collaborator | Level 9
5 years ago

It shows "Up to date" because, as I wrote above, I worked around the problem by restarting my computer. My original question is: is there an easier way to work around this Dropbox bug than to restart the computer that is stuck on syncing?

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