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kevinjones
Explorer | Level 3
9 months ago

My app on Windows has been stuck on 'indexing' for 2 days.

I have a fresh install of Windows 11 onto which I've installed Dropbox. It's a fresh install on this machine so there are on local files. It's been stuck on 'indexing' for 2 days. I've tried restarti...
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    kevinjones
    Explorer | Level 3
    9 months ago

    I read that page (for the advanced install) which I think says to delete all the keys in the registry and and the files in %LOCALAPPDATA% etc. which, as I said in the original post, I had done. The 'corrupt' database, where would that be stored on the file system?  

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      Mark
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      9 months ago

      Within that folder (LocalAppData)

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        kevinjones
        Explorer | Level 3
        9 months ago

        I've just gone through the process again, uninstalled, deleted everything I could find (including the Dropbox data in AppData/Local/Dropbox and reinstalled. It's still stuck indexing (and there's nothing to index is there?)

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