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brett_mileshko
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Explain "Syncing" in Desktop App

Hey everyone!   When the Dropbox desktop app is syncing or indexing, most of the time it shows you the amount of files remaining in the sync and the time it will take to do so.  However, there are ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    2 years ago

    Yes, using selective sync, you can limit the number of folders that are online-only on your machine. 

     

    Once the number of files in your Dropbox folder (including the online-only files and folders) are fewer than 300,000, then the performance of the app will improve.

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Jay
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Hi brett_mileshko, Hitch, do you have over 300,000 files trying to sync to your computer via the Dropbox desktop application?

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brett_mileshko
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Hi Jay,

 

That's a negative.  There are probably over 300,000 files in our Dropbox business account, but we are disciplined on selective syncing.  My guess is that I don't have over 50,000 Dropbox-based files synced to my computer (Apple M1 Pro, Ventura 13.5).  The rest are online-only files.

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