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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 ...
An update --- I uninstalled, downloaded the latest version, and reinstalled it; it's back to indexing files. I think I had about 9000 files in my dropbox; it said "indexing 9000 files," then "indexing 8000 files," and so on, to 5000, and has been hanging out there for the last 25 minutes or so.
Thanks again!
- atccodex
Super User alumni
I'd let it sit and see if it gets through. If not, maybe there is a file in there it is having issues with.
Ok. I took a moment to check file names - I know for some of the footage I had saved it with the following file name style " -name of song- @ -venue- ," and so I went through and renamed all those files to eliminate the @ symbol, just in case that was causing a problem. Other than improper symbols in the file name, what should I look for that may be causing problems?
It's basically all pdfs, docs, and images (jpg, png, etc), with a few audio files, and now the footage.
I ran dropbox's bad file check, and the pandas said there's no problems with any of the file names. Still stuck at indexing 5000 files though. :-(
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
