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MatteoG's avatar
MatteoG
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

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...
desktop
Folders
Windows
Hannah's avatar
Hannah
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Hey 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?

cffcff's avatar
cffcff
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Is Dropbox planning to improve this - so that I can sync all my dropbox files???? It feels ridiculous that I from my desktop should not be able to access all my files in a convenient way (which Windows Explorer offers).

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