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Forum Discussion
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.
Opened the computer, almost 800 000 files syncing, wlan connection slowing down. Am I supposed to just wait until it's done?
- Sanchez
Dropbox Staff
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.
I cannot find such a file, even though my hidden files are visible and I've followed through the paths found with several posts about clearing the cache. "filecache.dbx" doesn't seem to exist on my computer. I did find ".drobox.cache" with four subfolders.
(OS 10.12.4 Macbook, two different db accounts installed)
Same problem with resyncing all my files (obviously this has not been sorted out (Dec. 2020!). And no, with South Africa's pathetic IT infrastructure it takes DAYS to resync. I am not impressed.
