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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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Dragos V.
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

For me it finished after a night of PC connected to internet and set it not to enter in sleep mode. Finished by the morning, there is no problem since then (over 250.000 files had to be "toched" by dropbox server but all is good now.

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