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jeanzbeanz's avatar
jeanzbeanz
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

Dropbox not uploading/ uploading v slow

I have dropbox installed on multiple devices and they all work fine, except it has suddenly stopped uploading on my windows laptop. I moved a load of photos off my phone onto dropbox on my laptop l...
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  • Jane's avatar
    Jane
    8 years ago
    Hey walwar, 
     
    Let me send over some more details and tips to determine the cause!
     
    • For starters, you may have a look here for some steps to adjust your bandwidth locally. 
    • Secondly, you could try force quitting all other applications and see if this helps improving your syncing speed. 
    • Also, let me ask you whether you’re in a work or home environment. 
    • You could use the link below to check your connection speed through your ISP and local network by using the following link: http://www.speedtest.net/
     
    I’ll be following-up here, so please keep me updated in your reply! 
Tugrul N.'s avatar
Tugrul N.
New member | Level 1

i have the same problem... i'm using the last version of desktop client and i'm really started to think that i need to change my strorage service, because dropbox can't upload a 10 mb photo in 10 minutes... amazing...

hpzzep's avatar
hpzzep
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

I have exactly the same issues.

Dropbox takes forever to start, at least a few hours and sometimes more than a day.

And when it finally works, it's unbelievably SLOW...

After 24 hrs of stand alone syncing it has about 10.000 files done and then it just starts allover again...

I keep getting the same numbers of files being indexed and synced again and again.

I have complained and asked for help but they just give me standard BS-answers.

appearently they just don't care for customers who have already paid them good money so we end up with a product that just won't work properly anymore.

It's not our computers or networks that cause this problem, it's the lazy people at dropbox that just don't care.

I therefore decided to end my PRO-subscription after about 5 years.

If myself and everybody else with these same problems are not important enough for them to fix this problem than they don't deserve my business/money.

Luckily there are plenty of other cloud services!

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