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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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CJMVCco
New member | Level 2
17 days ago

Is there a solution to the issue. Dropbox started the new symbol sync and has decided to re-sync all 200K+ files between my PC and the cloud. Is this a joke? Surely Dropbox could leave my settings alone and implement the change. My PC has been syncing for 2 days now, still got 88k files to go. 

  • Tatinovic's avatar
    Tatinovic
    New member | Level 2
    17 days ago

    Same here. Dropbox decided yesterday it wanted to RE-SYNC all my 300K+ files (!!!). In addition, it wants to do it in BOTH of my computers. Couldn't anybody at Dropbox avoid this unnecessary nuisance to millions of users?

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