Dropbox is re-syncing my files again?

[Viqhaas M.]

Why on earth is this happening ?!? its resyncing everything again nothing has been changed why ?

[Alastair B.]

I have the same problem. One minute everything was synced and green and then suddenly everything was resyncing. Why is this happening?

[Tom_H]

It may have been your client updated on the computer. Often when this occurs a reindex happens. What that is the client compares all the files to those on the server, making sure they are indeed on the client. It appears as a full upload is occurring, but its just sending small bits of comparison data and should finish relatively soon. Relative, depending on your internet speeds and how long you use the client etc.

[Jeff K.39]

My dropbox is re-syncing. Why? I think I see from a previous post that this is different from a re-upload. But why does this happen?

[Colin J.4]

I have re-started my laptop after it has not been used for about two months.

Dropbox has downloaded the file list and is now downloading more than 80,000 files, my entire Dropbox folder. It's as though Dropbox does not recognise the files that are already on the laptop and downloads the entire folder, rather than just those files that have been created or amended since the last connection.

This is not the first time it has happened. It ties up the laptop for 15 - 20 hours doing it and I don't have time to wait.

Very frustrating and makes me think of abandoning Dropbox which, in every other respect, is an excellent service.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Paul D.37]

My entire Dropbox is re syncing !!! I added one file on my home PC and and when I go to work and login it is downloading all my files (from Dropbox) again!!  I have a presentation to do in 10 minutes and I cant access it!!!! I know that its probably just verifying that the files exist BUT that's going to take about 20-30 minutes at least.

[Lance S.6]

I have had this same problem for months now and have gotten no help from Dropbox support.  Has anyone figured this out??????

As long as the pc is on and Dropbox is running it seems fine, but if it reboots, goes in to sleep mode, etc.  Dropbox thinks it needs to resync ~20,000 files!!!

Maddening! 

[Tracey M.3]

I have just had exactly the same problem!! I was travelling for the week and my desktop off and was using my iPad to update files on dropbox...when I switch my desk top back on, it thinks it needs to resync everything and I've hardly changed anything!!!  Really frustrating!

[Lance S.6]

I have tried clearing the cache, etc. nothing seems to work!

[Ben C.28]

Same here. It affects only one of three Dropbox Pro accounts in our office, but with all six PCs affected, re-syncing over 120,000 files on each machine, creating lots of conflicted copies where files have been edited during this giant re-sync.  We are now at 24 hours and counting, as I left all our PCs running overnight in the hope it would finish.  This is surely a bug and not normal Dropbox functionality.