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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I didn't think it sounded correct. But the time it took from when I pasted the file into the Dropbox folder and the notification popped up was only a few seconds. I pasted the file and was going to the Dropbox icon in the system tray to see what the download rate was. By the time the cursor got there it popped up saying that sync was completed or it was up to date or whatever the message is. Dropbox must put the message up when it's on the last file then or something.
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Maybe it just reads the files to be synced into memory, and then tells you that syncing is completed, while in the background it is still transferring.
Windows does the same thing if you copy a file to a USB-stick or external hard drive, especially if it's a bunch of smaller files. Writing smaller files is slow. They are transferred into a buffer, waiting to be written. When you don't use the computer for a few seconds, the OS starts writing the files.
This is the reason why you always have to use "safely remove hardware". If you just disconnect the drive, files you copied to it minutes ago may actually still not be written.