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My files take a long time to sync on my MacBook desktop app.
It is taking a very long time to sync files with MacBook. Rest of team uses PCs and not having the same issues. Documents that I create or edit on my Mac are not syncing. I've tried pausing sync a...
I am a solo practitioner. I do not understand how DropBox for Business is unable to handle my files??
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi Wendy Craig, we appreciate your feedback.
In general, we don't recommend syncing over 300,000 files to your machine, even if the files are online-only, as this does affect the performance of the Dropbox desktop application, resulting in potential issues like this.
This is a soft limit and depends highly on the hardware specifications of the computer running the app. Some customers can sync more files without issue, such as your other colleagues using PCs.
