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Syncing 45,000k Files Indefinitely.
I have a business account, with just over 4TB of data being sync'd. I have several computers of various ages. All my computers are downloading the entire data set locally to each computer, since ea...
I don't understand. When you say taxed, I have generally no more than 50% CPU use, 45% memory use, 2% Disk....not the greatest. But that doesn't seem to taxed.
Syncing 46,146 files 19.6 GB (2+days)
File count...I'll let you know in a few hours. I suspect over 2-4 Million.
Thanks,
I was wrong. I only have 979,278 files. I'm surprised. Anyhow, you mentioned degrades after 300,000. Too bad that isn't advertised along with Dropbox Business accounts where far more data storage is available. Nonetheless, every other one of my computers does fine with it. Zero issues as all with the exact same data set. You mentioned that my computer is taxed, yet it's resources consumed tell another story.
Can you be more specific or clarify what's already been commented?
Furthermore, I don't know if the community has a solution for this, so hoping for that as Dropbox support has already said what you said to me as stated earlier in my post. What would be especially helpful is to have a means or be given a solution that while being able to keep everything in Dropbox Cloud, that there is also a way for me to backup everything in the cloud to a local device...which is what you're saying is a limitation. I don't necessarily need everything on this problematic computer except so that I can back all my cloud data up to a NAS for security and access purposes. Unfortunately, my NAS can definitely not handle syncing all these files directly from Dropbox....which is why I've used my computer. Then, Dropbox just allows me to use with teams across the world, of course.
Thanks,
- Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey mikeshick, sorry to jump in here.
I understand that your other computers are not having this issue and we do appreciate your feedback, but if you remove some folders from your Dropbox folder using selective sync, enough to get your file count down to about 300K, does it help with the issue at all?
Unfortunately, that ignores my need to back up the data locally and not only leave data available in the cloud.
- Hannah
I understand where you're coming from, Mike, and I will make sure your comments are passed along to our team.
Just wanted you to check if removing folders through selective sync, does actually help or not.
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