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marcosscriven
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4 years ago

Headless 'dropboxd' on Linux stuck on last few files, and I've no idea why

I'm using headless dropboxd on an up-to-date Debian Linux system:     ~/dropbox.py version Dropbox daemon version: 163.4.5456 Dropbox command-line interface version: 2020.03.04     It s...
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marcosscriven
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3 years ago

Just to update - while I still don't understand the reason some files aren't downloading, I found a faster way to find them.

I can use "rclone lsf -R dropbox:/", which is a recursive list of all files remotely.

Then I can just compare that to the locally synced list.

As it turned out, I didn't really need any of those files, so I deleted them from dropbox, and the Linux client now says it's up to date.

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