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alecot18
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Very slow opening files and folder

Hi everyone, I'm using Dropbox (firmware n. 166.3.2831) on my gaming laptop running Windows 11. Everything run smoothly until some days ago, when Dropbox suddenly became very slow when clicking to op...
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  • alecot18's avatar
    alecot18
    2 years ago
     if you have iCloud for Windows installed, try unistalling and re-installing it. In my case, the problem is solved.
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ejacobs55
New member | Level 2

A year and a half almost .... conflict with iCloud definately is causing this for me.  I need iCloud for pics and outlook integration .. any solutions ?  I reinstalled iCloud already

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haxAT
New member | Level 2
8 months ago

Same here ... even stopping icloud doesn't help. As soon as it's uninstalled everything is fine. Probably an icloud for windows issue though ...

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