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Darren A.'s avatar
Darren A.
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Desktop app is syncing some files forever

Hi All,   A week or so ago dropbox got stuck syncing. Says syncing 42 files, forever. Some files are being synced, but others arent. I reinstalled software, I relinked the account. Nothing has wo...
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  • madhatterts's avatar
    madhatterts
    9 years ago
    13.4.21 seems to have worked for me on Win 7. The DropBox support people did respond and we're asking questions but since it seems to be working now I'm happy.
  • steffen_le's avatar
    steffen_le
    9 years ago
    I think I found the problem on my machine. But there must be a bug. The problem always starts when I try to rename a file. This copying and deleting the file in one stroke does not work on my Windows 10 32-bit computer. Best wishes
steffen_le's avatar
steffen_le
Helpful | Level 6
May I ask, is it the same like with my computers that the problem appears only on Windows 32-bit systems?
madhatterts's avatar
madhatterts
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago
I am experiencing this on a 64 bit Windows 7 system.
  • steffen_le's avatar
    steffen_le
    Helpful | Level 6
    9 years ago
    Thank you for the information. Do you ask the support for help, too. They wait with the answer with me... I am getting crazy with this problem. I am starting to think changing the system...
    • RouseA's avatar
      RouseA
      Helpful | Level 6
      9 years ago

      I use Dropbox to synchronise files on two computers while delevoping embedded firmware and it works brilliantly.  However, I have just added a third computer and it repeatedly gets stuck syncing.  If I unlink it then re-link it first says it is syncing 40,000+ files.  The number gradually reduces until around 15 (different each time I repeat), then stops.  The Setting menu says it is indexing 4 files.  If I modify a file on one of the other computers the number will increase, but never decreases.

       

      No problems with the other computers.  All run Windows 10 64-bit.  The new computer is a Lenovo Yoga 700

      • tstanbur's avatar
        tstanbur
        New member | Level 2
        9 years ago

        I've been having very similar problems for several days, (Windows 7) wasting many hours with all the "fixes" suggested.

         

        I've just downloaded the latest stable build 13.4.21 from here

         

        https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Desktop-client-builds/bd-p/101003016

         

        and all is now working as expected!

         

        There is clearly major bugs with 12.4.22 that have affected many people - Dropbox have not acknowledged this and I'm not sure why the latest version hasn't "auto updated".

         

        I hope if you update then this will fix the issue for you too.

         

        Thanks,

        Tom

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