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foxmanchester
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Indexing stand off with Windows!

My Dropbox seems to be in a fight with Windows Search indexer!  Dropbox indexes... when it finishes, windows will start... then Dropbox indexes again!  And so on and son on... been happening for a co...
desktop
Dropbox Pro
Storage space
windows
Nancy's avatar
Nancy
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3 years ago

Hey foxmanchester! Hope you don’t mind me jump in. 

 

If you open your Task Manager, do you see any other third-party apps running at the same time as Dropbox? 

 

If yes, can you please close them and let me know if the issue continues after that or if you see any difference?

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foxmanchester
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

What are third party apps please? There is nothing new on the machine since I upgraded to Dropbox Professional. What apps do you know to be conflicting with Dropbox Professional please? It might be easier to work from your known app issues, first. I suspect I may have a lot of apps that are third party, all of which have worked fine with Dropbox Basic 

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    3 years ago

    We're  not aware of any specific apps that are in conflict with the Dropbox desktop app at the moment foxmanchester - have you tried turning them off one by one to see if any of them is causing issues?

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