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5puj47980xk
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

My entire Dropbox content is being re-synced, and I have no idea why.

Today DB choose to re-sync the entire folder from the beginning os: windows time wasted: unknow    
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Jayson L.
Helpful | Level 7
6 months ago

Probably related to the recent update for the Windows application. They've changed the appearance of things in your Dropbox folder. The sync status icons are no longer overlays on the program icon, but shown in a separate column unto itself now. As a result, for some reason, the application has to re-sync everything. I don't know why. It did the same thing to me after the update to version 227.x.x.

I'm still having issues with the sync status icons reflecting correctly in my folder, and I have an open thread on that topic. I really hope they can fix this, because I accidentally got a taste of this earlier on when (I think) it was in beta, and I was like, "this is going to be a mess."

Lo and behold...

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