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Dropbox very slow with Windows explorer
After wasting time, as usual, with Dropbox's assistance, I try to ask here. My problem is relatively simple to explain and consists in the fact that if I use Windows Explorer, navigating in the Dropb...
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey MatteoG, is it possible that you have close to or more than 300K files in your Dropbox folder?
The performance of the desktop app will decline with that many files in the Dropbox folder, so can you try using selective sync, to remove some folders and see if that helps?
I have already answered to this question:
Dropbox folder: 17.6 GB - 73.362 file - 32.215 folders - local space (my C drive) 2.94 MB
- Hannah
Apologies, Matteo, I missed that.
Does removing some files with selective sync work at all, though?
Instead of continuously asking question, pleas answer to this one: why the problem is only in WINDOWS EXPLORER and not in other file explorer applications (like Explorer++)?
- Nancy
