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IoanaH's avatar
IoanaH
New member | Level 2
3 hours ago

My Dropbox app keeps syncing and it's slowing down my computer

Application Affected Dropbox  Device Dell Precision Operating System/Browser (if using the web) Windows 11 My dropbox started syncing in the morning and 12 hours later it still does. Also the ...
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Hannah's avatar
Hannah
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3 hours ago

Hi IoanaH, thanks for joining the Dropbox Community!

Let's see what we can find out about this.

Can you please hover over the Dropbox icon in your system tray with your mouse and let me know what the sync status and version of the Dropbox app is?

Also, can you clarify the following?

the folder from my partition just became with 400gb smaller and keeps decreasing

Is this folder inside your Dropbox folder or somewhere else?

Let me know and we'll go from there.

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