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Dropbox StaffStable Build 83.4.152
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Thank you John L.2, that appears to have resolved ALL of my problems, at least for now.
IMO, that secret magic resynchornization button needs to be made a prominent feature of the Dropbox user interface. It's ridiculous that I had to suffer for a week with completely saturdated bandwidth and painfully slow syncs when all it took was the press of a button on your end to fix it.
Also, it appears that not even all Dropbox staff are aware of this resynchronization command. I have Jared in email explaining how Dropbox works to me (I've been using it for eight years, possibly longer than he has) and asking for screenshots to demonstrate the problems I've been reporting.
I spoke too soon when I said:
iiiyraegr wrote:Thank you John L.2, that appears to have resolved ALL of my problems, at least for now.
It did not fix ALL problems. A problem that the resynchronization did NOT fix is build 83.4.125's failure to use compression when syncing new text files added to Dropbox. With previous version so Dropbox I got about a 5x speed-up due to compression. (I could tell that data was being compressed using something similar to ZIP compression because the origianl file and the zipped file took the same amount of time to sync when neither had been added to Dropbox before.) Now the ZIP file syncs about five times faster than the origianl file, indicating that Dropbox is failing to compress.
