I have to wait on my macs (27" and two 13" Macbook, three and four years old, newest systems) almost 10 to 15 Minutes until i can use other apps, as dropbox syncs so slow the list. After list is load...
To my mind, the most likely cause should be that files on one of your Macs are removed(i.e.using the Selective sync feature), therefore this has improved your overall syncing speed Josef (pmeier). Thatâs merely a guess of course, though would you mind checking back to see if this applies to your current setup on either of your devices?
Additionally, Iâd suggest having a look here for some tips to adjust your bandwidth locally, whichwill help you speed up syncing a bitwhen it comes to your files uploaded/ downloaded via the client.
I hope that my advice is a bit more helpful. Let me know how you get on with these steps & weâll take it from there Josef. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead!
Glad to see that you got this squared away Shaun(Shaun S.10) & thanks for looping back here to let me know of the progress. Please donât hesitate to post us again on our Community in the future in case you have more thoughts or questions!
I also appreciate it that you circled back to me on this discussion here Nick (Nick_zz); let me follow-up a bit more closely from where we had left off!
I do have a lot of files (2 million) but am only using a fraction of the total storage.
Now, it would be worth rephrasing that the performance of the Dropbox desktop app can decline if you have more than 300,000 files synced to your computer. This is a soft limit and depends highly on the hardware specifications of the computer running the app.
(1) it is available on different machines and (2) you don't have to decide what to do with old folders due to lack of capacity.
While you can store as many files as you have storage space for on your account online Nick, you may not be able to sync all those files to your computer, as this may affect the overall resources allocation.
I hope that this brings a bit more clarity to your inquiry & please let me know here if you have more questions or I've misunderstood your description in any way. Wishing you a wonderful month ahead!
I have an update to my original issue. Following one of the user suggestions, I upgraded my (mid-2010 "cheese grater") Mac to SSD storage. Between that and switching to "smart sync" and online storage (whatever it is called, when the files are downloaded only when you use them) my problem is mostly gone.
Obviously, this might not work for everyone. In this respect I concur that upgrading your hardware is not a "solution" in the sense you would expect from the support / troubleshooting discussion group for a software product. Rather, it is an acknowledgement of the lack of a software type solution.
It is likely that someone who can't afford $2-3k to buy a new computer or spend ~$500 on SSD's and memory upgrades, will be also unable to afford a paid Dropbox account. It probably makes sense financially to let those broke and / or stingy customers fend for themselves (especially the ones with several million files).
But you never know, some kid in Finland might just be working on a cloud storage system that also keeps track of the metadata of your files on every one of your computers so it doesn't have to rebuild the database or whatever each time the user logs in.
There is no solution other than upgrading your system to include an SSD drive that I can find. If you donât like that than you can use Dropbox without the app.
Thank you Shaun S.10 for the info on upgrading the storage to SSD. As I mentioned, that solved the issue for me as well. Previously I had increased the memory to 64GB and that didn't make a lot of difference. Switching to online-only storage for most files also helped, but I think it was really the switch from HDD to SSD that did the trick.
This has been an issue for years with Dropbox. I guess they just have no idea how to fix it. I'm upgrading to SSDs on my 2012 MBP just to "reduce" the effect of this.
I have been suffering on both my Intel iMacs for years with the same issues. Takes about 15 to 20 minutes for my Mac to become usable while it waits for Dropbox to "startup" and then sync after.
Surprise, upgraded one machine to new M1 iMac and the process takes 30 seconds.
I wonder if anyone had to cahoones to delete dropbox and their dropbox folder, and then re-=download the entire filed and see if that fixed the issue?
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I have to wait on my macs (27\" and two 13\" Macbook, three and four years old, newest systems) almost 10 to 15 Minutes until i can use other apps, as dropbox syncs so slow the list. After list is loaded, the file syncing is in normal speed.
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An update to the next level (where Smartsync is possible) is too expensive.
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So what to do?
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Best regards
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I have an update to my original issue. Following one of the user suggestions, I upgraded my (mid-2010 \"cheese grater\") Mac to SSD storage. Between that and switching to \"smart sync\" and online storage (whatever it is called, when the files are downloaded only when you use them) my problem is mostly gone.
Obviously, this might not work for everyone. In this respect I concur that upgrading your hardware is not a \"solution\" in the sense you would expect from the support / troubleshooting discussion group for a software product. Rather, it is an acknowledgement of the lack of a software type solution.
It is likely that someone who can't afford $2-3k to buy a new computer or spend ~$500 on SSD's and memory upgrades, will be also unable to afford a paid Dropbox account. It probably makes sense financially to let those broke and / or stingy customers fend for themselves (especially the ones with several million files).
But you never know, some kid in Finland might just be working on a cloud storage system that also keeps track of the metadata of your files on every one of your computers so it doesn't have to rebuild the database or whatever each time the user logs in.
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I have an update to my original issue. Following one of the user suggestions, I upgraded my (mid-2010 \"cheese grater\") Mac to SSD storage. Between that and switching to \"smart sync\" and online storage (whatever it is called, when the files are downloaded only when you use them) my problem is mostly gone.
Obviously, this might not work for everyone. In this respect I concur that upgrading your hardware is not a \"solution\" in the sense you would expect from the support / troubleshooting discussion group for a software product. Rather, it is an acknowledgement of the lack of a software type solution.
It is likely that someone who can't afford $2-3k to buy a new computer or spend ~$500 on SSD's and memory upgrades, will be also unable to afford a paid Dropbox account. It probably makes sense financially to let those broke and / or stingy customers fend for themselves (especially the ones with several million files).
But you never know, some kid in Finland might just be working on a cloud storage system that also keeps track of the metadata of your files on every one of your computers so it doesn't have to rebuild the database or whatever each time the user logs in.
To my mind, the most likely cause should be that files on one of your Macs are removed(i.e.using the Selective sync feature), therefore this has improved your overall syncing speed Josef (pmeier). Thatâs merely a guess of course, though would you mind checking back to see if this applies to your current setup on either of your devices?
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Additionally, Iâd suggest having a look here for some tips to adjust your bandwidth locally, whichwill help you speed up syncing a bitwhen it comes to your files uploaded/ downloaded via the client.
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I hope that my advice is a bit more helpful. Let me know how you get on with these steps & weâll take it from there Josef. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead!
To my mind, the most likely cause should be that files on one of your Macs are removed(i.e.using the Selective sync feature), therefore this has improved your overall syncing speed Josef (). Thatâs merely a guess of course, though would you mind checking back to see if this applies to your current setup on either of your devices?
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Additionally, Iâd suggest having a look here for some tips to adjust your bandwidth locally, whichwill help you speed up syncing a bitwhen it comes to your files uploaded/ downloaded via the client.
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I hope that my advice is a bit more helpful. Let me know how you get on with these steps & weâll take it from there Josef. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead!
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Glad to see that you got this squared away Shaun(Shaun S.10) & thanks for looping back here to let me know of the progress. Please donât hesitate to post us again on our Community in the future in case you have more thoughts or questions!
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I also appreciate it that you circled back to me on this discussion here Nick (Nick_zz); let me follow-up a bit more closely from where we had left off!
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I do have a lot of files (2 million) but am only using a fraction of the total storage.
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Now, it would be worth rephrasing that the performance of the Dropbox desktop app can decline if you have more than 300,000 files synced to your computer. This is a soft limit and depends highly on the hardware specifications of the computer running the app.
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(1) it is available on different machines and (2) you don't have to decide what to do with old folders due to lack of capacity.
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While you can store as many files as you have storage space for on your account online Nick, you may not be able to sync all those files to your computer, as this may affect the overall resources allocation.
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I hope that this brings a bit more clarity to your inquiry & please let me know here if you have more questions or I've misunderstood your description in any way. Wishing you a wonderful month ahead!
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Glad to see that you got this squared away Shaun() & thanks for looping back here to let me know of the progress. Please donât hesitate to post us again on our Community in the future in case you have more thoughts or questions!
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I also appreciate it that you circled back to me on this discussion here Nick (Nick_zz); let me follow-up a bit more closely from where we had left off!
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I do have a lot of files (2 million) but am only using a fraction of the total storage.
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Now, it would be worth rephrasing that the performance of the Dropbox desktop app can decline if you have more than 300,000 files synced to your computer. This is a soft limit and depends highly on the hardware specifications of the computer running the app.
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(1) it is available on different machines and (2) you don't have to decide what to do with old folders due to lack of capacity.
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While you can store as many files as you have storage space for on your account online Nick, you may not be able to sync all those files to your computer, as this may affect the overall resources allocation.
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I hope that this brings a bit more clarity to your inquiry & please let me know here if you have more questions or I've misunderstood your description in any way. Wishing you a wonderful month ahead!
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Thank you Shaun S.10 for the info on upgrading the storage to SSD. As I mentioned, that solved the issue for me as well. Previously I had increased the memory to 64GB and that didn't make a lot of difference. Switching to online-only storage for most files also helped, but I think it was really the switch from HDD to SSD that did the trick.
Thank you Shaun S.10 for the info on upgrading the storage to SSD. As I mentioned, that solved the issue for me as well. Previously I had increased the memory to 64GB and that didn't make a lot of difference. Switching to online-only storage for most files also helped, but I think it was really the switch from HDD to SSD that did the trick.
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This has been an issue for years with Dropbox. I guess they just have no idea how to fix it. I'm upgrading to SSDs on my 2012 MBP just to \"reduce\" the effect of this.
This has been an issue for years with Dropbox. I guess they just have no idea how to fix it. I'm upgrading to SSDs on my 2012 MBP just to \"reduce\" the effect of this.
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SSD is a really good idea!
Maybe this is the solution. Only the time to set up the new SSD with the old system is enormous.
Maybe this is the solution. Only the time to set up the new SSD with the old system is enormous.
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I have been suffering on both my Intel iMacs for years with the same issues. Takes about 15 to 20 minutes for my Mac to become usable while it waits for Dropbox to \"startup\" and then sync after.
Surprise, upgraded one machine to new M1 iMac and the process takes 30 seconds.
I wonder if anyone had to cahoones to delete dropbox and their dropbox folder, and then re-=download the entire filed and see if that fixed the issue?
I have been suffering on both my Intel iMacs for years with the same issues. Takes about 15 to 20 minutes for my Mac to become usable while it waits for Dropbox to \"startup\" and then sync after.
Surprise, upgraded one machine to new M1 iMac and the process takes 30 seconds.
I wonder if anyone had to cahoones to delete dropbox and their dropbox folder, and then re-=download the entire filed and see if that fixed the issue?
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