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Why are my files all syncing again?
Hi Community
I switched on my Windows 11 PC this morning and for some reason it asked me in the Dropbox Client to login again. So I did and now it is syncing again all my over 460'000 files which will tage days to finish.
Why is it, that after I had to login again, that it will sync, with other words, download all the files to my hard drive again? I have set dropbox so that the files should me stored localy on my hard drive.
Why does it not know, that all the files are already on my hard drive? This is so frustrating that it will download all the over 460'000 files again.
Does anyone have an idea.
Thanks for your help.
Imbi
Hi Jay
Thank you ever so much for your message.
Right up front. For some reason, after a couple of hours, the sync was finished and all the over 650'000 files where in sync again. 🙂
I just don't understand why I hat to sign up again and why it started to sync again.
The Smart Sync I have set to "Local" in the Dropbox Client and it seems to be all ok now. There was no OS update recently.
My Dropbox folder is on an external hard drive. All I can guess, is that the USB hard drive was not hooked up properly to the system and that is why it did ask me to sign in again.
Again Jay, thank you for your help. I'm using Dropbox for many years now and had no problem what so ever.
Take care
Imbi
- Rich
Super User II
Imbi wrote:
My Dropbox folder is on an external hard drive. All I can guess, is that the USB hard drive was not hooked up properly to the system and that is why it did ask me to sign in again.
Be VERY careful using Dropbox like this. If the USB drive isn't connected when Dropbox launches or becomes disconnected while Dropbox is running, Dropbox could see that sudden loss of files as a mass deletion and start to delete the files in your account.
