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Dropbox icon constantly reports "Indexing 4 files..."
I deleted all files in my personal Dropbox account, then moved a couple gigs of files into it from my work Dropbox account. It took a little while to move the files but has been completed for a couple days but I have a persistent working icon showing and it says "Indexing 4 files...". How do I determine which files it is supposedly still indexing, or if it is just hung up for some reason? I told it to show me any Sync issues and it says I have no sync issues. I have quit/restarted several times. Running Windows10.
Do I need to manually make a file online-only again, after making it offline to edit it?
Just to confirm – On windows Dropbox uses symlink to make a reference to a file when “smart sync” is in effect — so on the first access to that file, the DB (windows) client will fetch the file from dropbox.com. Once the file is downloaded to the client, I can then process the file. After I finish processing the file, is it by design that it remains on the client, so if I want to free up the space, what would I have to do to free up the space that the file is using? Now other cloud storage systems like Gmail/GDrive and pcloud use a virtual drive so that unless I set cache or local folder that file is just in the cloud.
File opened "x minutes ago" when I didn't open it?
I was looking for a file I'd accessed on my phone, but was having a struggle seeing files based on how recently I'd accessed them so I tried on the web client instead I was shocked to see various flags of files being opened within the last hour that I hadn't accessed! I checked the files and they were only shared/accessable to me, not to anyone else.. I quickly changed my password and removed a slew of older devices I'd used to access Dropbox. The next morning (now) I've opened the web client again, and more random files that aren't shared with anyone else are still showing as being accessed seemingly "on their own" Can someone shed some light on this behaviour?
The syncing icons no longer appear on my Windows desktop app.
Hi everyone! At this time the icons of synchronization status are not shown, it is inconvenient, at the first installation of the old version of Dropbox 199.4.6287 Offline Installer.x64 icons were shown, but after the update did not show. In this case, the recommendations of the site DROPBOX I implemented, and on this forum no solutions found. What do I need to do to get the sync icons to show up like the outdated Dropbox for Windows 10 and 11? Thank you for your answers!
Pop up alert for duplicate file
When uploading a file to a folder it no longer pops up alerting me I’m uploading a duplicate file (which sometimes do by mistake if not deleted an email etc and forgot I’ve already done it lol!)…how do you turn this on again? Don’t know why it changed or stopped as I haven’t touched any settings. Thanks in advance for any help!
