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Files not syncing on a Dropbox folder on a server
Hello all,
Two or three weaks ago dropbox decided to remove symlinks, and we have to move all our files to a new 4TB disk that is mounted on our main server (Ubuntu System). We follow the protocol ...
Hello again,
Thank you all for your answers.
It seems i needed to increase my 'inotify.max_user_watches'. It syncing very slow, but its syncing. We will adopt measures to reduce the number of files in our Dropbox folders, since this is not advicable and it even can crash our system.
I will marked this as solved for now. Thank you all again for the support.
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorYes, that would be an issue, since network file systems do not send messages when files change, meaning the Dropbox app wonât know that it needs to sync anything yet.
There isnât any workaround for this, as itâs to do with the whole structure of the way networks share and transfer files.
Youâd need to either have users remotely login to the one account on the server, which isnât recommended since it can result in conflicted copies, or have multiple Dropbox accounts with shared folders to the server account.
Symlinks into the Dropbox folder likewise would fail since the computers are sharing it over the network.
However, given the apparent size of the account, theyâd need more than that 2 GB of quota given with free accounts, so either paid personal or Business accounts would be better placed for your needs.
Also its happening with the larger files. They are never synced with my machine.
- Jay
Its stucking on that.. I checked if i delete the file from Dropbox site the folder stays synced. I can see its happening on files that have + than 30MB.
