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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 ...
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.
Ok. I took a moment to check file names - I know for some of the footage I had saved it with the following file name style " -name of song- @ -venue- ," and so I went through and renamed all those files to eliminate the @ symbol, just in case that was causing a problem. Other than improper symbols in the file name, what should I look for that may be causing problems?
It's basically all pdfs, docs, and images (jpg, png, etc), with a few audio files, and now the footage.
