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I'm trying to back up 100GB of files to Dropbox, but it's super slow.
Hi there, I just started using Dropbox to backup 100 Gb of an external drive on the Cloud plus a few Gb from the system drive. I'm on Macbook & Sonoma 14.7.2 + Dropbox Desktop App.
I've noticed tha...
My bandwidth speed is set to Auto. When the sync is working the speed is absolutely fine.
No conflict with Google Drive cause I use it on another computer. At the beginning of the backup process it took hours just to start the upload, but I though it was calculating and preparing the backup.
What I don't understand is why sometimes, in the middle of the sync, first it goes fast and then suddenly the uploading progress is zero or so slow that after many hours it has barely uploaded a few megabyte.
Like, for example, right now: I updated the external drive with 10 more Gb of data, I started the Sync with dropbox and it just uploaded the first 2-3 Gb of data pretty fast but now is kind of stucked and it will probably take many hours to get close to the end of the upload.
- Nancy
Dropbox Staff
Are there any other apps running in the background at the moment?
If you check the current syncing status of the Dropbox app, what does it report?
The only apps I usually keep open are Whatsapp Desktop and Chrome, OneNote occasionally.
It was stucked at 100 Gb from yesterday...a few minutes ago it started progressing again. The App is always reporting "updating....number of files"
Looks like something is triggering the progress of uploading but I don't know what.
- Jay
Hi stereosides, could you try quitting all other open apps on your machine, and just in case, any other devices on your home network if there are any other machines also using bandwidth on your network.
