Dropbox is re-syncing my files again?

[Viqhaas M.]

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

[DOsinga]

Have a look at your .dropbox folder in your home directory. There should be one or more subdirectories with names like instance1 or instance2. In there you might find the filecache.dbx file

[akokkone]

Thank you! I did find it. Deleting those files and restarting dropbox doesn't seem to have changed anything, though - still a horrible amount of files syncing.

[DOsinga]

Well, what can I say. It worked for me. It did take a while though - it seems if you delete this file it does need to recheck all files and rebuild the database. But at least for me after that things became stable again. It'd be nice if somebody from dropbox would weigh in though.

[NKD]

This has just happened to me it says:

Indexing: 2617

Uploading: 11,028

[akokkone]

Finally I was able to solve my problem by uninstalling, deleting everything and selectively syncing only the barest necessities, which was only about 10% my previous amount.

[Mattias]

I do face same issue, once or twice a week Dropbox business re-registrate more than 300 000 files.
My team mebers suffers as it takes half day to get latest version of the files resently updated.
How to avoid this?

[Sanchez]

Hi @Mattias. Welcome to our forum! 

I’m sorry to hear about this, and I would like to suggest that you write in to our support team here so that they can investigate further. 

Thank you! 

[nirwa]

Interesting--did you ever get this solved? I have had the same issue on my home computer for over a year.

My only response from support was that redhat enterprise linux (OK Centos 7) is not supported--not very helpful, and much less than useful.

[Mattias]

Still not solved, re synking every 2:nd week on average