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This is the scenario:
Dropbox is up to date, the local folder is identical to the remote folder. You perform a time machine backup, and restore to a new disk.
What happens is after restore Dropbox asks for user / pass as it was not installed and then starts resyncing all the thousands of files. What's the sense of this?? Shouldn't it just be aware that nothing has changed and live with that?
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Chris N. wrote:
Shouldn't it just be aware that nothing has changed and live with that?
No, it shouldn't, and you've just explained why.
What happens is after restore Dropbox asks for user / pass as it was not installed and then starts resyncing all the thousands of files.
Dropbox has a local database that it uses to keep track of all your files. When your files are indexed, this database gets populated. If you uninstall and resinstall Dropbox, or if this database otherwise becomes corrupted or deleted for whatever reason, Dropbox needs to index your files to rebuild the database.
Typically, a re-index is very quick when the database is already populated, as it's only comparing your files with what it already has indexed, but when that index doesn't exist, it takes more time to rebuild it.
Well, the DB should be there as it was just backupped to Time Machine
Your response doesn't make sense. I'm using Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner regularly, and regularly i have to re-sync my Dropbox-Library. Both tools apparently don't "back it up properly"?
Somehow all my other apps manage to store their state somwhere, and keep it after a restore. Only Dropbox "forgets" the stored credentials.
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Ok, thanks very much.
May i propose to make the difference between syncing and indexing clear in the client. I'm sure you're right and the client indexes first, but it shows "syncing x files". That is what made me nervous, because i surely didn't change 10k files and was not sure what the client is doing.
Jane
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