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Steven L.27's avatar
Steven L.27
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Selective sync does not load folders

OS: macOS Sierra 10.12 I am unable to use selective sync. I open Dropbox Preferences > Account and click on Change Settings for Selective Sync. Dropbox opens a window and it says "Loading more fold...
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Johnny B.4's avatar
Johnny B.4
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

+1 (Windows 10 - Pro account) . Spent all night reading other threads with this problem.  Saw one that said Dropbox has problems when you have over 300k files.  I had ~250k.  I moved most out of Dropbox and am now less than 3000 files total in my Dropbox folder.  Still won't populate the Selective Sync folder list.  The fact that there are so many posts in this thread as of Saturday makes me think this is a different issue though.  Really upsetting either way.  Thinking of switching to alternative storage solutions if not solved very soon. 

Edit: Was just about to send a support request and looked over and saw that it had finally populated.  So, yeah, it looks like maybe it's not altogether broken, just ridiculously slow, even with less than 3k files. :/

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