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ehahn9's avatar
ehahn9
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Switched to Mac File Provider API version (174.4.5852) - now continually "syncing 6 files"

Hi! Hope someone can help me. Amongst the many problems with the new Mac FPAPI version, this one is a deal-breaker and I can't seen to figure out what's going on...   My otherwise idle system cyc...
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Dropbox Basic
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matteosecli's avatar
matteosecli
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Same here, spent all morning trying to figure out why my files were not syncing properly even though Dropbox was syncing "something" all times. The new File Provider API update is terrible; Dropbox is there syncing stuff all times (I know don't what, exactly), sometimes doesn't even start up unless I kill every Dropbox process and restart, "fileproviderd" is running over 100% CPU all times, other apps that access Dropbox files are broken (for example, MATLAB got stuck at startup until I granted full disk access to both MATLAB and Drobox and I set up a startup folder in an "available offline" Dropbox folder)... I heavily rely on Dropbox for work, and yesterday I couldn't get any work done for at least 3 hours, until my Dropbox finally decided to kinda start working...

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