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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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2 years ago

Just to clarify, are you referring to marking files as online-only, or are you using selective sync to prevent entire folders from appearing on your machine?

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    brett_mileshko
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    I am using selective sync to choose which folders I want to see (both online-only and available offline), but we only select a limited numbers of files as "available offline" as I know this can run into issues.  Is your suggestion to limit the number of folders that are even listed as "online-only"?

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