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Why on earth is this happening ?!? its resyncing everything again nothing has been changed why ?
My issue is similar--frequency is variable, it works for a while, then fails again.As far as I can tell it looks like the reauthentication times out, dropbox pops up a web page and relinks the computer.
Good to know I am not the only one--shared pain, etc, etc.
Having similar issues, the "Fall update" for Windows 10 caused my Dropbox to resync everything on a couple of PCs.
I have very fast internet and other PCs so it is not major for me. If I do want to get something fast when this sort of thing happens I just skip the queue and go to the Dropbox site work on and place back in the box when it is finished resyncing.
This seems to happen on my Windows 10 machine whenever I move a folder within the Dropbox folder structure (e.g. just grouping files, or consolidating folders). With over 600,000 files, this takes DAYS to finish. I've a 60Mbps Internet link and an M.2 hard drive, so I'm not I/O limited.
Come on Devs, why does this happen so frequently, yet take so long? I can understand the purpose, but it becomes a showstopper when you want to use/update files, and you can't use Dropbox for days at a time!
I have had a great experience with Dropbox, having had my 1TB 90-99% full variably over the last 1 year plus and no significant issues.
Only recently, in the last week or so, Dropbox decides to re-sync all files (~250,000) that are selectively synced on my work Macbook Pro every time I open my laptop for the day. It goes relatively fast (1 hour or so), but is a problem.
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SEVEN PAGES OF CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS ABOUT RANDOM resynching of files & NOT one solution. The same thing is happening to me. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?????????????????
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Re-installed the stable build 48.4.58 and it is STILL syncing all files.
Working off a brand new 2018 iMac, and this came on randomly last night - now I cant have access to a lot of files that I am in need of.
I'm supposed to be paying for this service?
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