Why on earth is this happening ?!? its resyncing everything again nothing has been changed why ?
I don't recall any changes to the OS etc. It didn't say re-indexing, it said updating and the number of files kept increasing. After one or two days it was still going like crazy.
I found online somewhere that I should delete filecache.dbx. I did that, restarted dropbox. Now it did re-index all files, but this only took a couple of hours. I've not had a problem since.
I think it would be nice if Dropbox would pay attention to this sort of thing in a more timely fashion for paying customers.
Can we ask Dropbox to download the newest pics first then re-sync itself? Terribly frustrating not being able to reach data. Maybe a pause button? I delete and add files on a daily basis, when this "re-sync" occurred it takes forever to correct itself YES I have a super fast computer with TONS of space and the highest speed internet connection. Since I delete so many files I have to sit here and constantly tap my iphone telling it to "give up" on an upload fail, since I deleted it already from my phone/dropbox spaces in the universe. THIS is highly annoying. Wont progress until I say "retry" or "give up" Who's bright idea was this?
Can you please restate this more clearly? I think you undstand my problem but I can't understand what you're saying exactly.
Also, is there a solution?
Hi, has anyone had any solutions to this?
Mine just happened yesterday. And its been doing it a long time as there are almost 3 million files!
All i did yesterday was to delete some files to make space for my harddisk. But now everything is resyncing.
Hi!
I have a Dropbox Pro account and also having this same problem. I updated removing some files and organizing some directories, but it started to resync all files. And it is stucked resyncing without updating the new files I have to work with my colleagues. I had to change to the old method of email to send and receive files. And it seems that it will take some days until it finishes, as I have about 980K files to resync. It is not limited by the bandwidth of the network, since it not sending and receiving so many files (I verified that it only sent/received few MB in the last hours). So, I recommend that Dropbox give priorities for the last modified files, instead of the resyncing old directories.
One of the consequences of taking too long to sync, is that some of the updates I did, to save space (some days ago), are now reverted. For example, I deleted some folders in one machine, so I think that this will be a change that will reflect in all other computers. But since it is taking too long to sync on that machine, the other computers do not see this change. On the other hand, the computer with the deleted folder is updated again creating that folder again. So, all the work I made to clean the space in that computer, is gone...
Since it is taking, and will take, some days to finish, it is very dangerous to do any update in the files of this computer.
I can understand that (re)sync may be slow because of the slow network. But I'd like to give more cpu power to the dropbox app so it can (re)sync faster. And also, dropbox must pay attention to recent files/folders first. Obtain and compare information of the complete directories and files (with timechange of the files) should be simple and faster (doing this without considering the content of the files). Why dropbox do not consider such files/folder tree first, and only then do the (re)sync of the old files/folders ?
The programmers must be stupid. Why when I make a mistake of disconnecting my dropbox account by removing the external disk does it resync EVERYTHING ! Just stupid. And dropbox have still not improved their search capablities and simple things like putting files in order you last looked at them.
Same problem here, for the second time now! Is anyone from dropbox monitoring this forum? If so, an official response would be nice.
Same here- this has been going on for nearly a year now. Over the last few months it just seems to chew up all of my CPU "indexing" or syncing a single file but it amounts to the same thing. PAIN.
It seems that my dropbox is stable now. I saw some posts about the problems of having symlinks and also about problems when there are too many files (more than 300k files). So, I removed all symlinks and zipped (and removed) some folders with too many files so that now I have less than 300k files. And now, it is stable for some weeks.
I suffered the same fate over the past few months. It made Dropbox unusable and I have been scrambling for the past two weeks trying to come up with an alternate solution. I think the only way I can make something work reliably is if I set up syncing in between my home server by presenting the ssh port through the firewall so I can perform SFTP syncs and access the files. There are plenty of file broswer front ends for things like mobile platforms or using it for storing files from cloud hosted services. Of course my computer has to be running, but it's been doing fine for the past 4 years. I guess if it fails it's just time to buy a new machine!
Just to add my name to the list. This morning it was syncing 8 files, I changed one more and now it says 490 000 files syncing. It doesn't show any recent changes on the client or on the web site, so I guess what's happening is that it is checking these files as to whether they've changed. Anybody from Dropbox wants to weigh in?
Opened the computer, almost 800 000 files syncing, wlan connection slowing down. Am I supposed to just wait until it's done?
I cannot find such a file, even though my hidden files are visible and I've followed through the paths found with several posts about clearing the cache. "filecache.dbx" doesn't seem to exist on my computer. I did find ".drobox.cache" with four subfolders.
(OS 10.12.4 Macbook, two different db accounts installed)
Have a look at your .dropbox folder in your home directory. There should be one or more subdirectories with names like instance1 or instance2. In there you might find the filecache.dbx file
Thank you! I did find it. Deleting those files and restarting dropbox doesn't seem to have changed anything, though - still a horrible amount of files syncing.
Well, what can I say. It worked for me. It did take a while though - it seems if you delete this file it does need to recheck all files and rebuild the database. But at least for me after that things became stable again. It'd be nice if somebody from dropbox would weigh in though.
This has just happened to me it says:
Indexing: 2617
Uploading: 11,028
Finally I was able to solve my problem by uninstalling, deleting everything and selectively syncing only the barest necessities, which was only about 10% my previous amount.
I do face same issue, once or twice a week Dropbox business re-registrate more than 300 000 files.My team mebers suffers as it takes half day to get latest version of the files resently updated.How to avoid this?
Interesting--did you ever get this solved? I have had the same issue on my home computer for over a year.
My only response from support was that redhat enterprise linux (OK Centos 7) is not supported--not very helpful, and much less than useful.
Still not solved, re synking every 2:nd week on average
My issue is similar--frequency is variable, it works for a while, then fails again.As far as I can tell it looks like the reauthentication times out, dropbox pops up a web page and relinks the computer.
Good to know I am not the only one--shared pain, etc, etc.
