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Dropbox indicates 'downloading xx files' _forever_
Dear community,
I have a perfectly correct Dropbox installation, no noteworthy issues with illegal filenames and I have performed all possible kinds of troubleshooting.
Even so, every so often, m...
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi Jay,
I understand such functionality might not currently be available although, the fact that 'sync badges' are overlaid on file icons must indicate there is some kind of mechanism which allows sync status to be obtained (I suspect some kind of attribute). That should allow one to programatically obtain an overview of potentially problematic files...
Whatever may be the case, given how frequent reports of 'permanent syncing' or general sync issues are, it would be nice to consider this for a feature update of some sort.
Users (and often customers!) should be empowered to troubleshoot their system in the event of trouble instead of having to resort to the general 'stop dropbox/unlink/reinstall/ ...' scenarios. It would save a lot of time and effort.
- Jay
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Any news on this? These issues still occur from time to time and are very annoying...
I also have this problem, and its very frustrating. I am running Windows 10, Dropbox version 85.4.155, it says downloading 317 files and uploading 44 files... I am connected to the interenet and everything seems fine. Restarting the computer or dropbox doesn't help. There seems to be little rhyme or reason to the files that won't sync. Some are pdfs that haven't been touched in years, in other cases a fold shows as not synched... but all the files inside show as synched (and hidden files are showing). Any help would be appreciated...
