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XionicFire
Collaborator | Level 9
3 years ago

How to fix being stuck on Indexing forever loop of death on multi million file DBs after db crash

Ok so I've used Dropbox for almost as long as its existed and recently due to frustration with the never finishing indexing bug I was forced to find out why this kept happening so I could prevent it....
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Nicholas M.4
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Thanks, good to know

I want to add a folder that has millions of small files in it. I tried  a few years back and Dropbox just couldn't cope. I might give it another go armed with this information.

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