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Dropbox is indexing more files than I have in my Dropbox
Mac OS X 10.14.6
The dropbox app tells me that it's synchronizing over 6 million files and uploading more than 400,000. But according to a terminal 'find' listing, I only have 592988 files in my Dr...
OK so here is what solved the problem:
Unlink the Dropbox. Make a backup of all the files in the local Dropbox.
Delete everything in the Dropbox online through the web interface except for the online-only folders.
Link the Dropbox again and let it upload everything. Works fine again with over 800,000 files. Must have been a problem online then. This is obviously really onerous but it worked.
OK so here is what solved the problem:
Unlink the Dropbox. Make a backup of all the files in the local Dropbox.
Delete everything in the Dropbox online through the web interface except for the online-only folders.
Link the Dropbox again and let it upload everything. Works fine again with over 800,000 files. Must have been a problem online then. This is obviously really onerous but it worked.
- Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey Mark M.122, apologies for the delayed reply here!
I'm very glad to hear that you resolved the issue, awesome work on the troubleshooting there too. :grin:
I really appreciate you taking the time to come back and share what worked for you here, as I'm sure that this will be helpful to others who might be having the same issue.
If you do happen to have any other questions or issues, please don't hesitate to give me a nudge here and I'd be more than happy to help out.
I hope you have a great day!
For other unix people, here's the command to echo the top 5 directories with most files in them. Helps to see where all the files are, like logging directories or npm libraries
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec bash -c 'echo -n "{}: "; find {} -type f | wc -l' \; | sort -nrk2 | head -n 5
