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Indexing... (forever)
Hello! I moved some video footage to my Dropbox last night, and it's still indexing this morning. Meanwhile, it's eating up my CPU, my RAM, and it says it's locked up 100% of my disk (when I check task manager). I checked, and none of the files have inappropriate characters (colon, slash, etc).
The only thing I can think that might pose a problem is that I have started to do some video editing. I use Videopad, and I believe that it makes some sort of directory to the files that you're working on. I have Videopad saved on the desktop, *not* in the Dropbox folder, because I read that can cause sync problems; I haven't used it in several days, and definitely not since I uploaded these files, but I thought that might be related...?
I'm on Windows 10; I'm not using more than a small fraction of my quota. What's going on here? Thanks in advance!
I have not, but as I was putting the files in my dropbox last night, I saw a notification in my system tray to that effect. It said that I ought to re-install Dropbox in order to fix the Dropbox icon, but when I looked after dinner, the notification seemed to be gone, and the problem it had referred to (the dropbox symbol not displaying properly) seemed not to exist. I'll try that now!
An update --- I uninstalled, downloaded the latest version, and reinstalled it; it's back to indexing files. I think I had about 9000 files in my dropbox; it said "indexing 9000 files," then "indexing 8000 files," and so on, to 5000, and has been hanging out there for the last 25 minutes or so.
Thanks again!
- atccodex
Super User alumni
I'd let it sit and see if it gets through. If not, maybe there is a file in there it is having issues with.
