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richard d.24
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10 years ago
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What is file indexing?

I have dropbox installed on my work computer that has software called deepfreeze (software by Faronics) on it. Basically deepfreeze boots from an image created when it was installed so every morning ...
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  • DaveC2's avatar
    DaveC2
    10 years ago

    Indexing is reading all the files in your dropbox folder and building a crc/md5 type set of index values for each 4MB chunk of file.
    These values get stored into a database file in C:\Users{username}\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox and below.
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    You are restarting from a snapshot and this folder and files are as it was at the time of the snapshot, so indexing is taking place on all the files it doesnt know about.
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    I would suggest the following.
    1) Restart in what ever mode is required to prepear to take a new snapshot
    2) Do not run the DB app
    2) MOVE the folder C:\Users{username}\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox to the non frozen dirve
    3) Create a SYMBOLIC LINK folder at C:\Users{username}\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox that points to the other drives location of the folder
    4) Take a new snapshot
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    Pretty much you have moved it out of the snapshot and left a link in the snapshot to replicate the folder from where it is as if its on C still.
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    Next restart will still require a Index, but following that the database will not have been frozen and be up to date.

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DaveC2
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Its is similar to a shortcut, but NOT the same.
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When you enter a shortcut to a folder it takes you to the location of the folder. C:\1\2.lnk shows you D:\2
When you enter a symbolic link folder it shows you the location as the folder. C:\1\2 (symbolic link) shows you C:\1\2 which is actually D:\2
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The DB app expects the folder C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox to exist so you cant have a shortcut, but you can have a symbolic link.
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PS: make one like this > dos session : MKLINK /D "C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox" "D:\someplace\Dropbox"
The second one is NOT your "DROPBOX" folder its the one from appdata you moved. You can rename it if you like.
As in if your DROPBOX folder is at D:\Blah\DROPBOX you could move C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox to D:\ then rename D:\Dropbox to D:\DropboxAPP then move it to D:\blah\DropboxApp then create the symbolic link
MKLINK /D "C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox" "D:\blah\DropboxApp"

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