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benreed
Explorer | Level 4
8 months ago

Taking a long time to open my Dropbox folders in File Explorer, after updating Win11

After  a Win 11 update Dropbox access in File Explorer became very slow. If I click on a subfolder it takes a long time to open subfolder. But, If I click open in new tab or new window, that subfolde...
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repartist
Explorer | Level 4

Problem solved. I uninstalled iCloud and it fixed the issue.  No idea why it caused a problem. 

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benreed
Explorer | Level 4
5 months ago

I don;t have iCloud installed...

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    repartist
    Explorer | Level 4
    5 months ago

    Do you have any other cloud storage other than Dropbox? I’ve been dealing with the problem for a,couple weeks and everything worked great as soon as I uninstalled iCloud

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