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PapaNinjago
2 years agoHelpful | Level 5
"Your account stopped syncing during an update" error on desktop app on Windows
I am on Windows 11, latest release and my Dropbox is also stuck on updating. The Dropbox version is the same. I am also receiving an error that I have not received before. I have stopped SnagIt, but ...
Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
2 years agoJean361, did you all start having this issue after a specific update? Whatâs the Dropbox app version youâre running on your devices?
Finally, can you send me a screenshot of what you see, when trying to access your local Dropbox folder?
XionicFire
2 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
Nancy what do you mean "what update"? its THE update, the only update ever on Dropbox history that is so large they had to shutdown service for an hour to perform it, never in our time here (and we've been here since almost day 1) had we seen Dropbox needed to suspend service for an update, it was that big, so there's no way you guys don't know what update were talking about
The problem is simple, Dropbox is trying to move files or folders that are currently in use, and cannot, hence its stuck there, just trying forever to move them, but it cant so service cannot be restored until it does, and again, since it cant, it just stays there stuck forever.
We also cannot see what files its having trouble moving, at least on our side it just stayed stuck on "Updating Dropbox account..." no errors, no messages, no nothing.
Dropbox needs to move what ever files it can, then NOT move the ones it cant, so we can figure out what's causing the problem and manually fix it.
Some of us had our employees windows desktop/documents folders pointing to a folder inside Dropbox, others had production level apps running directly off of the Dropbox folder.
Any of these could be causing the problem, but we cannot shutdown production servers for a day just to "find out why dropbox is not syncing"
We need some sort of fix for this, and I'm sad to say we're not the ones being paid to fix it, you guys are.
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