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Boxifier not working with latest Dropbox update

Good morning ,

Is anyone able to assist with getting hold of @Boxifier team member ? They are completely unresponsive and email or post on their website not being allowed showing as pending. Original issue i had was as below (copy of the message to @Boxifier below)Does Boxifier still exist?

I’ve been using your software for several years and have been very happy with it. However, over the past couple of months I’ve been experiencing persistent issues. I frequently receive the message “core not running,” and all of my previously synced folders are being removed from the Boxifier folder.

When I try to re-add the folders, it creates further problems — Dropbox begins deleting and re-uploading large amounts of data, causing several hours of disruption. Additionally, folders from my shared drives are being copied and converted into random files, while the originals remain untouched in their original locations.

Attempting to re-link the folders doesn’t work either; I get an error message saying that a folder with that name already exists in Boxifier. In Dropbox’s Selective Sync settings, I can see that the folder is listed and selected to sync, but nothing happens. The only workaround I’ve found is to completely delete the folder from Dropbox online and then re-link it on my PC — which again results in hours of syncing chaos.

I’ve tried reinstalling the latest versions of both Boxifier and Dropbox each time this occurs, but the problem persists.

Could you please assist me in resolving this issue? It’s been quite disruptive, and I’d really appreciate your help in getting things back to normal.

Last night its stopped completely following and Dropbox update to 243.4.6956, whatever i do no cant get it to work again and workflow is seriously impacted .

Can anyone help please , thanks Szymon

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Neal

No worries at all @Daveh839 and I appreciate those kind words!

Thanks for letting me know Boxifier responded to you 2 weeks ago, that helps put things into a bit of perspective at least.

In regards to how long that workaround is sustainable, I honestly have no idea. That depends on way too many factors that I have no input or visibility over.

I'm sorry I can't be more help in that regard!

Kyres

I want to thanks all of you. With the hints found in this thread (install release 242.4.5815 over the last one and disable automatic update services) I was able to make boxifier running again.

I have near 600 gb of personal data in a synology nas synched in dropbox.

I've tried synology cloud sync, but Boxifier is really a lot better solution.

I can understand the reasons why DB doesn't reccomend to use a network folder (the risk of unavalaibilty as the first one), but I think in the world there are a lot of people that are able to know what they are doing and to know how manage and understand that risk.

I think if boxifier features should be directly included in DB, a lot of people now using boxifier, would be willing to pay an additional fee to avoid problems sometimes happens with boxifier to DB integration

Daveh839

Hi Kyers,

You've made some great points in your post, and I agree it would be fantastic for Dropbox to incorporate functionality to allow syncing with mapped external drives/NAS. That is so common now that it's become mandatory functionality, and cloud solutions that provide that capability natively are going to win a large customer base. That would be a great idea to post in the Dropbox Ideas Forum if you'd like to do that.

There's another thread that might prove interesting that you may want to keep an eye on around that topic: Dropbox/Boxifier Integration - New Question | The Dropbox Community

Cheers,

Dave

Kyres

Hi Dave,

I've created the "new idea"

https://www.dropboxforum.com/idea/101002013/synchronize-network-folders-over-nas/859676

Daveh839

Hi Kyres,

Thanks for voting for the idea I submitted, and for creating yours! I've voted for yours as well.

Cheers,

Dave

mhinks

FYI - Razvan the CTO from Boxifier has now left the company, so I dont expect him to respond on here any more. Got a message via LinkedIn.

mhinks

Anyone heard any more? I've had to renew for another year, the top power server version :( Not really got a choice. At least its stable for now, but its only time before Dropbox has to update.

Jay

Hi @mhinks, thanks for your message.

Currently, we don't have any updates on this matter. Once we have any news, we'll post an update here.