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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 cycles between "Your files are up to date" and "Syncing 6 Files" every few seconds. Indeed, it seems to be syncing *something* (and consuming modest network bandwidth) but does not list any recent files in Sync history or Activity tabs.
This behavior seems to be new with the FPAPI version and is happening on all of my dropbox machines...
- Has anyone else seen this?
- Is there any way to get the actual filenames of what dropbox is syncing?
- or, perhaps someone can point me to a Mac FP API utility to report file system changes?
I'm stumped! Thanks so much for any help!
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Thank you, that's what I did but with the help of users, one Saturday morning wasted.
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...
The new file provider version of Dropbox is trash. I need to move my Dropbox folder to a new drive as I now need to sync more files. M1 Mac... guess what, I can't upgrade my hard drive. It's about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
And the upgrade process caused my Mac to have a fit of the vapours as, rather than move the files, you duplicated everything. Cue hours of late-night diagnosis of what was happening.
I want to downgrade so I can move my Dropbox folder and sync to an external drive. How do I do this? Or, if not, what alternatives are there to Dropbox? I already use Backblaze for a different purpose.
Tired of trying to resolve this, only to find out what the changes were... that, frankly, upon reflection, were pretty much forced upon me without any indication of the downsides of making the upgrade. I'm now not a happy long-time Dropbox customer; I signed up as a paid customer on 18th March 2011, and up until this update, Dropbox has never got in my way.
Seamless my ass.
I don't understand this
always conflicts
always random whole 300 000 files reindex
always losing files
why ? You could have just told us it's not stable 😞
