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coymeetsworld
5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Dropbox is continuously reporting it's syncing, or indexing on Windows 10.
Hello,
Despite not making any changes to my Dropbox folder contents on my Windows host the Dropbox icon is at a constant syncing and/or indexing state and I cannot tell what it is actually trying t...
- 5 years ago
Several documents were showing up in the Windows File Explorer, but had a gray x icon on it. I right clicked on all of them and selected Smart Sync->Local. They downloaded (changing the icon to green checkmark), and then then the sync icon on the Dropbox icon in the status bar went away. I'm not sure why I needed to do manually select Smart Sync for each individual file when I'm using Selective Sync and specified that folder, but that appears to have stopped the continous syncing for me at least for now.
Jhinkle78
5 years agoNew member | Level 2
Hi! I recently had to "refresh" my desktop, which uninstalled all of my apps. After I reinstalled Dropbox desktop (Windows 10) the computer acts funny.
I can see Dropbox in my systems tray showing a constant syncing of 11K+ files. When I right click to open the systems tray, the window opens up....all white...not responding. After about 3-4 minutes, the unresponsive window closes. Opening Dropbox causes my computer to act funny---I can't even reliably open task manager to kill apps.
Help!
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