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TomHHRS
Helpful | Level 6
3 months ago

New Dropbox desktop update is re-syncing everything.

This new update has messed how my Dropbox works on Desktop too. I also get the 'syncing' symbol on all of my folders, and for some reason Dropbox has decided that it needs to Sync all ~80,000 files a...
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Huginn
Explorer | Level 4
3 months ago

I still have the same issue. It seems to have been caused by the update that also changed the icon and sync status indicators in Windows. This happened last week, and since then, syncing has been continually indexing between 1,000 and 15,000 files for me. That number does not appear to be decreasing but looks fairly random to me.

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    Hannah
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    3 months ago

    Hey Dragos V., thanks for taking the time to post your experience; I'm glad to see that everything's now back to normal for you.

    As for you Huginn, are you still having this issue right now?

    If you haven't already, please restart your computer and let me know if that helps or not.

    Also, if you could send me a screenshot of what you see when you hover over your Dropbox icon, it would be really helpful.

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