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Dropbox icon constantly reports "Indexing 4 files..."
I deleted all files in my personal Dropbox account, then moved a couple gigs of files into it from my work Dropbox account. It took a little while to move the files but has been completed for a couple days but I have a persistent working icon showing and it says "Indexing 4 files...". How do I determine which files it is supposedly still indexing, or if it is just hung up for some reason? I told it to show me any Sync issues and it says I have no sync issues. I have quit/restarted several times. Running Windows10.Do I need to manually make a file online-only again, after making it offline to edit it?
Just to confirm â On windows Dropbox uses symlink to make a reference to a file when âsmart syncâ is in effect â so on the first access to that file, the DB (windows) client will fetch the file from dropbox.com. Once the file is downloaded to the client, I can then process the file. After I finish processing the file, is it by design that it remains on the client, so if I want to free up the space, what would I have to do to free up the space that the file is using? Now other cloud storage systems like Gmail/GDrive and pcloud use a virtual drive so that unless I set cache or local folder that file is just in the cloud.
Preserve file Creation Dates(and other metadata) in mobile app versions
The ability to preserve, view, sort by, etc the original Creation Dates(and other metadata) of files is missing or severely limited in the Dropbox mobile apps. People who donât use Dropbox primarily for business purposes on a computer but, as many of us do these days, use our smartphones as our primary(or only) method of keeping track of media/documents/audio files/etc are having to deal with the frustrating situation of trying and failing to backup/reorganize/download to another mobile device/etc our files without losing this extremely important file metadata. I canât even view ANY file information on non-photo files, and the photos are difficult to even upload with a title that reflects the actual creation date. If not uploaded at a painful 1 image at a time (and many times not even then) the file name will be changed to the upload date/time. The creation date is ALWAYS listed as the upload time or the last time that it was moved, downloaded, re-uploaded, etc. Thereâs no sort by CREATION date, only sort by Modification date which is just a complete denial of basic file management for those of us who manage all of our files on mobile phones and tablets. We desperately need full file information accessibility for Dropbox mobile apps⊠ESPECIALLY the ability to preserve and sort by the ORIGINAL file creation dates⊠and to not lose access to those creation dates when moved, renamed, downloaded, re-uploaded, etc, but to keep them intact despite all modifications. Creation dates and modification dates can be preserved separately without sacrificing one for the other, as long as the filesâ metadata remains intact.
Add .dropboxignore directory to exclude folders without using selective sync
Please please please can you add a feature that allows folders to be excluded from the Dropbox account (on windows and mac). For sure I'm not the first person to request this, but I'm yet to find a good explanation of why it's not there. A quick google search reveals loads of people also looking for the same feature. I really like the workflow I have with dropbox, but it's getting to the point where I might switch providers in order to allow better selective sync. I've seen hackish solutions using selective sync, but it would be great if this could be done in one of the following ways: - global pattern matching eg "node_modules" - a marker file in the directory like .dropboxignore - a simple right click context menu "Ignore this folder" Other than that, keep up the good work. Cheers. TomWindows file explorer crashes when renaming Dropbox folders/files
I've been using DropBox happily with Windows File Explorer for years. I'm on Windows 11 and fully updated on the Windows and DropBox. I've recently hit a problem when I try to rename files or folders in DropBox. The renaming happens, but then the spinning blue circle comes on, and after about 5s, File Explorer crashes. When File Explorer restarts, the change has happened but I have to navigate all the way back to where I was working. So nothing disastrous, but a real pain, and clearly shouldn't happen. This behaviour doesn't happen with non-DropBox files/folders. I have done a system file integrity check. I have deleted and re-installed DropBox completely. But the problem remains. My DropBox version is 220.4.4126. The DropBox is nearly 100Gb in total, but there aren't any super-big files there. Any ideas how I might fix this?I'm seeing a "Reconnecting to the internet, this may take a moment" error on my Windows 10 device.
Hello! Let me say right away that English is not my native language - sorry. Recently (possibly coinciding with the replacement of the motherboard and processor with new, but identical one to one) - the Dropbox icon became gray and "Connecting..." Windows 10 Pro (22H2, OS Build 19045.2604) Dropbox desktop app (version 220.4.4126) is giving me the "Reconnecting to the internet, this may take a moment" error message, but if you go to "View sync issues", there is a message "You have no sync issues". I will say right away that I have read many messages on the forum, on the Internet and have done all possible and even impossible checks and actions, for example: - deleting cookies and registry entries - completely uninstalling the program and reinstalling it - installing other (earlier) versions - no VPN, no antivirus, firewall disabled - ipconfig /flushdns, disable IPv6 and so on At the same time, the page https://www.dropbox.com/home opens smoothly in the browser and there are no problems with the Internet at all and never have been. Please help me solve my problem! Thanks in advance! P.S. Please delete the duplicate topic: https://www.dropboxforum.com/discussions/Welcome/windows-10-reconnecting-to-the-internet-this-may-take-a-moment/827117/replies/827118
