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sleepysloth's avatar
sleepysloth
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

files missing in synced folders on Linux, but not online or on Windows

I've been using Linux for a few months and the Linux version of Dropbox has been great. Recently, though, I wiped Linux, installed Windows, and then installed Linux again so I can dual-boot. I didn't...
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Здравко's avatar
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
5 years ago

Hi sleepysloth,

Some more information would be helpful. Can you provide additional information about currently running application and environment? Post the following commands results (executed one by one):

dropbox version
dropbox status
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches

How many files/folders reside in your Dropbox folder? As an alternative, you can post the result of following command:

db_path=`jq -r '.personal.path' ~/.dropbox/info.json`; echo -n "Your Dropbox folder $db_path entries approximate count is "; tree -a "$db_path" | wc -l

You may need install 'jq' and/or 'tree' if some of them are missing on your system.

Let's hope the above results will clarify what's going on. 🤔

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