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Dropbox StaffStable Build 228.4.5567
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My windows 11 laptop updated to 228.4.5567 this morning. Now it seems to be taking a really long time to index files. It seems to fluctuate between 40K & 50K files (out of around 400,000). It's keeping recent changes from syncing. I've paused sync & restarted sync. Shut down & rebooted the computer. I'm going to let it run all night, but it's causing a back log and others cannot see my recent changes. Anyone else experience issues with this build?
I've had this exact same experience...version updated this morning and has been indexing all day. Have not had this issue with previous updates.
- Dell_Dropbox
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Thanks for notifying us of this, I'll pass the experience along to the team
I let it run all night. It took exactly 24 hours to finish syncing.
I did notice that dropbox uses the term sync and index interchangeably and in my world they are two different things. If you hover your mouse over the taskbar icon it says "indexing" but if you click on the icon the pop up window says "syncing", that was part of my confusion. I thought all of the files had sync'd and it was now indexing the files and so I was concerned that changes hadn't updated across the drive yet.
It would also be nice if we were allowed to schedule the updates (and perhaps with a reminder that this could take a long time.)
I imagine this affects people who have their files stored locally(?)
