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Kingofmyroom
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Dropbox Transfer slower than regular Sync

Hi there,   I'm wondering why the upload speed for a Dropbox Transfer is so much slower than using regular Sync? It quotes me about 4 hours to process a 96GB folder, while regular Sync uploaded t...
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pk_nyc
Helpful | Level 6
7 months ago

In my experience, Dropbox Transfer when invoked from the MacOS share menu always quotes an extremely inflated ETA throughout the entire upload, but it finishes in the correct time. It looks like a math bug in the progress estimate.

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