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dropbox filestatus unwatched for all files in Dropbox directory
Ubuntu 19.10
Dropbox daemon version: 93.4.273
Dropbox command-line interface version: 2020.03.04 Dropbox is keeping up to date -- up and down. But file status reports as unwatched $ /...
Hi Stephen B.25,
In you particular case symlink or binding - doesn't matter. The issue comes from the fact that the Dropbox daemon make a literal comparison between queried path and watched files/folders path, not inode comparison! That's why, even the same, a file could be shown with different status because beginning of the path is different. :nerd:
If you want to, can try mount a partition, you use in your home and move Dropbox folder there, if is more convenient for you. Be very careful, in such move! Take care not to left Dropbox application without available actual Dropbox folder place, even for a moment; this can lead to data loss!
Good luck.
Ah! The filestatus from the original directory /mnt/3T/acer.dropbox/Dropbox reports 'up to date' -- as expected.
So ... good enough.
Would it be better to symlink rather than bind mount?
ln -sf /mnt/3T/acer.dropbox/Dropbox /home/stephen
I may have already tried that because that would be my first try. The bind would not be the first try but perhaps I had some other issue at the time I was installing.
Hi Stephen B.25,
In you particular case symlink or binding - doesn't matter. The issue comes from the fact that the Dropbox daemon make a literal comparison between queried path and watched files/folders path, not inode comparison! That's why, even the same, a file could be shown with different status because beginning of the path is different. :nerd:
If you want to, can try mount a partition, you use in your home and move Dropbox folder there, if is more convenient for you. Be very careful, in such move! Take care not to left Dropbox application without available actual Dropbox folder place, even for a moment; this can lead to data loss!
Good luck.
I'm okay with things as they are so I'll just leave it now that I understand.
Thanks for your help.
Hey, Ive been struggling with this for a few days. I think I finally found the solution,
In my case, this is what fixed the problem.
1. Quit Dropbox completely
2. manually run dropbox inside a terminal : ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
3. when running it like this, you can see some additional errors. in my case it said, my dropbox had so many files, i was exceeding the inotify watch limit, and even gave me the exact command I needed to run to increase this limit: echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p
4. Restart dropbox
Hi jbiskofski,
All right, since you have find out a solution working for you. Symptoms in your case are slightly different, for sure. 🧐 Your case is different, definitely, so don't mess them!
Good luck! 😉
Ok I'm experiencing this same issue. running cat ~/.dropbox/info.json; echo results in
{"personal": {"path": "/persist/Dropbox", "host": 67560646000, "is_team": false, "subscription_type": "Pro"}}
If I cd to /persist/Dropbox and run dropbox filestatus
I get that everything is unwatched.
I have also run ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd in a terminal and have added the line fs.inotify.max_user_watches=10000 to /etc/sysctl.conf
and then ran sysctl -p.
This does not change the result of running dropbox filestatus from the root of local Dropbox tree. Which I don't really care about,, the problem is that any new files or directories I create on this system do not get sync'd up with the cloud or my other devices.
