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FranciscoLagos
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9 years ago
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Dropbox doesn't sync or update immediately my files (using Ubuntu)

I'm using Dropbox in Ubuntu 16.10 and it doesn't sync or update immediately my files after dropping or creating them in my dropbox folder.   It only sync them after restarting Dropbox app.   I've...
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  • Fearg's avatar
    Fearg
    9 years ago
    Hi Francisco,

    If you have tried to unlink and relink your account from the Dropbox app on your computer I would recommend making sure that you have no symlinks or anything else interfering with your files in the application.

    You may also want to try disabling your anti-virus temporarily to see if this allows any syncing to take place.
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Fearg
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9 years ago
Hi Francisco,

If you have tried to unlink and relink your account from the Dropbox app on your computer I would recommend making sure that you have no symlinks or anything else interfering with your files in the application.

You may also want to try disabling your anti-virus temporarily to see if this allows any syncing to take place.
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tomw
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Hi Fearg,

 

Experiencing similar issue with dropbox not recognizing changes in the ~/Dropbox/...subfolders on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.  This is a recent occurance and it used to work OK a few weeks(?) ago

 

Now having any symlinks at all in the folder causes the Dropbox app to not see ANY changes on any files until you pause/un-pause, restart or do something else to trigger a full index.

 

Use case is I have development folders stored in dropbox to keep in sync across workstations.  Symlinks are created in the node_modules and tmp folders.  I have selective sync set to ignore those folders but it seems dropbox is still looking into them and getting confused.

 

Finding all symlinks, removing them, and restarting dropbox app made it work much faster and begin

find . -type l -ls

 

Is there a way to keep dropbox from seeing or telling it to ignore those symlinks so it can go on syncing these folders?

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