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Dropbox is re-syncing my files again?
Why on earth is this happening ?!? its resyncing everything again nothing has been changed why ?
I don't recall any changes to the OS etc. It didn't say re-indexing, it said updating and the number of files kept increasing. After one or two days it was still going like crazy.
I found online somewhere that I should delete filecache.dbx. I did that, restarted dropbox. Now it did re-index all files, but this only took a couple of hours. I've not had a problem since.
I think it would be nice if Dropbox would pay attention to this sort of thing in a more timely fashion for paying customers.
Tom_H
Super User alumni
Super User alumniIt may have been your client updated on the computer. Often when this occurs a reindex happens. What that is the client compares all the files to those on the server, making sure they are indeed on the client. It appears as a full upload is occurring, but its just sending small bits of comparison data and should finish relatively soon. Relative, depending on your internet speeds and how long you use the client etc.
Can you please restate this more clearly? I think you undstand my problem but I can't understand what you're saying exactly.
Also, is there a solution?
Hi, has anyone had any solutions to this?
Mine just happened yesterday. And its been doing it a long time as there are almost 3 million files!
All i did yesterday was to delete some files to make space for my harddisk. But now everything is resyncing.
Hi!
I have a Dropbox Pro account and also having this same problem. I updated removing some files and organizing some directories, but it started to resync all files. And it is stucked resyncing without updating the new files I have to work with my colleagues. I had to change to the old method of email to send and receive files. And it seems that it will take some days until it finishes, as I have about 980K files to resync. It is not limited by the bandwidth of the network, since it not sending and receiving so many files (I verified that it only sent/received few MB in the last hours). So, I recommend that Dropbox give priorities for the last modified files, instead of the resyncing old directories.
