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faustlaw's avatar
faustlaw
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Clean My Mac update caused TOTAL FILE RESYNC

I just updated clean my mac ran it and now my Dropbox is resyncing ALL THE FILES.  What went wrong?  I don't want this to happen again.   Thank you. 
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  • Storyer's avatar
    Storyer
    8 years ago

    Hi, that's Volodymyr from MacPaw, company that developed CleanMyMac app. 

     

    Thanks for contacting us on that, we've located what exactly causing that and fixed that. So with the upcoming update of the app this will be fixed. 

     

    Have a great day! 

     

    Regards,

    Volodymyr

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graemetic
Explorer | Level 4
Rich wrote:

When Dropbox indexes your data, a local database of your files is created. Dropbox uses this database to keep track of what files are stored locally, what files need to sync, etc. If the cleaning apps remove this database during their drive cleanup, Dropbox will have to re-index your files.

I'm having exactly the same problem with 40,000 files re-syncing every time. What is the Dropbox database file called so I can add it to the "Ignore List" i Clean My Mac?



faustlaw's avatar
faustlaw
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago
20170723_085408 I have tried to use ignore list but it doesn't stick for next clean.

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