alexonskiogc

This thread was opened over four years ago, and the problem persists with Dropbox personnel improperly pointing fingers towards Microsoft as indicated elsewhere in this thread. I threw in the towel, and migrated my cloud storage over to OneDrive, completely removing the Dropbox desktop app from my Windows 10 PC. Others…

in Renaming files: windows re-selects entire filename when other files resync Comment by alexonskiogc September 2023

I was having problems with Dropbox using 100% of my CPU for long periods of time (typically 7-40 minutes) whenever a sync occurred (e.g. upon restart, wake from sleep, after file saves). I have my Dropbox folders in a nonstandard location in D:\Dropbox, and this problem has been getting increasingly worse over the past…

in Syncing never stops, says updating for 5 days Comment by alexonskiogc July 2021

Further update from Dropbox support is that there is no ETA for a fix, quoting from their update on my support request below: Sep 17, 2020, 11:38 PM PDT: Currently, the Engineering team are unable to provide an exact timeframe as to when the file renaming issue will be fixed. For the moment, the workaround is to pause…

in Renaming files: windows re-selects entire filename when other files resync Comment by alexonskiogc September 2020

I have experienced this same issue on both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 computers. I have have had an open support request with Dropbox on this issue for about two months now, and their only resolution so far is to disable syncing when renaming files or folders. This is very inconvenient to do every time you rename a file.

in Renaming files: windows re-selects entire filename when other files resync Comment by alexonskiogc July 2020

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