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ShawnS
2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Windows app stuck displaying 'Syncing ### files'
Hello Dropbox Support, One of our clients is having issues with syncing from the website to app. She has 130 files downloading for multiple hours, and appears to have made little to no progress. ...
- 2 years ago
Hello. After much more digging with our client we were able to identify a handful of folders that contained , and . characters. After we had Dropbox ignore those folders and went in low-level on Windows to delete those files locally, the Dropbox app finally read "Your files are up to date".
In all my troubleshooting I did not see anywhere that Dropbox would identify these as problem filenames or reveal the files in the "Syncing ### files" message. My apologies if I missed it but a listing of the files waiting to be synced would've answered this question for us weeks ago.
ShawnS
2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Hello. After much more digging with our client we were able to identify a handful of folders that contained , and . characters. After we had Dropbox ignore those folders and went in low-level on Windows to delete those files locally, the Dropbox app finally read "Your files are up to date".
In all my troubleshooting I did not see anywhere that Dropbox would identify these as problem filenames or reveal the files in the "Syncing ### files" message. My apologies if I missed it but a listing of the files waiting to be synced would've answered this question for us weeks ago.
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