varenc Helpful | Level 5

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  • @"akseeker" I've seen it do that too. It shouldn't be wasting bandwidth like that... But you can stop `DropboxMacUpdate.app` from waking up every hour by unloading its launchd job: launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist
    in Stable Build 141.4.3299 Comment by varenc March 2022
  • @"campmdabt" I wanted to do the same thing and was sadly out of luck. Of course you can cat a file to ensure Dropbox syncs it but that's a bit slow for a large directory. My solution was to read the first 10 bytes of every file in a folder recursively and in parallel. This triggers Dropbox to sync the files somewhat…
    in Online-only files sync CLI or AppleScript Comment by varenc January 2022
  • Same issue. Disabling and re-enabling Camera Uploads "fixed" the issue. This happened soon after I updated that app. Though looking at the Camera Uploads history, I can see that some photos were uploaded even when the Dropbox app was stuck on "scanning your photo library". So the bug seems more UI related and doesn't…
    in Issues with Camera Upload Comment by varenc July 2021
  • Dropbox clients on two of my computers also seem to be doing a mass-resync. Possibly related to this release. Files and folders that haven't changed in years suddenly are getting the blue spinny icon. This is happening on two of my computers. Looking around Dropbox in Finder also seems like it's making the problem worse…
    in Stable Build 88.4.172 Comment by varenc January 2020
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