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jabubin
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

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 ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    6 years ago
    Hi there, could you check to see which folder is still syncing? Is it a specific folder or filetypes? How large is the file?
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atccodex
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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.

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jabubin
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

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. 

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