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Mecalbi's avatar
Mecalbi
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago
Solved

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 ...
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  • Mecalbi's avatar
    Mecalbi
    6 years ago

    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's avatar
Jay
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6 years ago

It’s possible that the issue is related to the number of files you have on your account. Is this again when remotely logging into the machine, or is this the account physically located on your local computer?

Mecalbi's avatar
Mecalbi
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Probably is the number of files. But was not happening before when we used the symbolic  links inside Dropbox. Didn´t understand quite your question. Can you explain please?

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
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    6 years ago

    Sorry, my question was, is this on your personal machine, as in, the files are not syncing to your computer?

    This isn’t the remote login to the server we’re referring to, the one with the issues?

  • Mecalbi's avatar
    Mecalbi
    Helpful | Level 5
    6 years ago

    This is happening on our Server (Ubuntu). The files all are on Dropbox Website. The bsecond account that have the shared files its working good on Dropbox Website too. They just not are going to the server.

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