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Nearly 3 days now. No signs of progress aside from it slowly consuming my hard drive space again (down from 112 to 106GB so far) when I should be gaining space from making it online only. I know I can clear the cache again but that'll probably just re-start the syncing. The ONE folder showing as cloud only in my photo?--it's now marked as preparing to sync. Is this thing just syncing over and over and over again??
And it's the weekend now, so, no answer even if I reopen my ticket for at least another 2 days.
What happens if you opt out of this abominable update? Somebody said it's the "most disruptive option"? Does it just start this process all over again?
Yes it does. But on my case it was faster and more reliable. The official instructions are not very complete but I have posted more comprehensive instructions in this thread.
I don't get notifications of replies on this forum anymore for some reason (yet another thing recently broken) so I didn't see this until now, thank you for replying. I've attempted reopening my help ticket (the last response came around 9:30 at night, it was marked as solved around 1AM afterwards, less than 4hrs, before I could even turn my computer back on) and will wait till I hear back before trying to undo the update, though that means waiting at least another day.
That's it, I give up. Still syncing after almost 4 days, no progress in sight other than my hard drive space dropping from 112GB to 103GB and still dropping. I haven't been able to use my laptop or properly back up my files for over a week. I paused the sync, closed Dropbox, and shut down.
I then checked a couple of folders, my one original folder that's still showing (the others disappeared--another bug?), one conflicted sync folder (ANOTHER bug). ALL OF THIS has been marked as online only--though technically, that conflicted sync folder shouldn't even be there. It opened up both files I tried, an HTML file and an image. Did not prompt me to connect to Dropbox again to download. What has this update been doing the past 4 days? Definitely not what I told it to do. I don't even plan to upgrade this old thing to Windows 11 so the update is useless on this computer. Unfortunately, I'd had thoughts of getting a new Windows 11 computer, but if this is what I have to look forward to backing up my files, I have no idea how I'd proceed. :(
Garbage update.
