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jabubin
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Indexing... (forever)

Hello!  I moved some video footage to my Dropbox last night, and it's still indexing this morning.  Meanwhile, it's eating up my CPU, my RAM, and it says it's locked up 100% of my disk (when I check ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    6 years ago
    Hi there, could you check to see which folder is still syncing? Is it a specific folder or filetypes? How large is the file?
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atccodex
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Hey jabubin,

 

Have you tried reinstalling the Dropbox app? 

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jabubin
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

I have not, but as I was putting the files in my dropbox last night, I saw a notification in my system tray to that effect.  It said that I ought to re-install Dropbox in order to fix the Dropbox icon, but when I looked after dinner, the notification seemed to be gone, and the problem it had referred to (the dropbox symbol not displaying properly) seemed not to exist.  I'll try that now!

 

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