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JM2024
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago
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Sync-Problem: Linux Mint 21.3 and Dropbox v194.3.6224

Hi, I have a silly problem. If I change a small file on my Linux machine, the dropbox-icon will get blue and will show "Syncing" for multiple days. After a really long time it is going grey again...
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  • JM2024's avatar
    JM2024
    2 years ago

    Version Dropbox v194.3.6258 is working more better.

    For me the problem is solved.

    Thankyou

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JM2024
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Hi Nancy,
please not at the bottom the blue-sync icon, which stays very long and please notice, that nemo shows all green.
Would it make sense to go back to the release-train? If yes, what is the best way?

 

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Nancy
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2 years ago

Thanks for the screenshot, JM2024! When saying that you’ve rebooted (in your first post), are you talking about the Dropbox app or your device, in general?

 

I’d also like you to right click on your local Dropbox folder directly, go to its Properties and send me one more screenshot of what you see there. The performance of the Dropbox app may decline after syncing 300k files, so I’d like to make sure that’s not the case here.

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    JM2024
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    I rebooted the whole PC and sometimes the Dropbox app itself.

    Sometimes this helps, but most often it is showing still "syncing" after the restart. 

    Good had a good idea regarding the number of files:
    If I use a "find . -type f | wc -l" I see: 324247 files
    I am using Dropbox since beginning and had never this kind of problems. And I am sure, that I had 400.000 files working some weeks ago.
    You are selling 15T.....So 300.000 files shouldnÂŽt be a challenge, right?

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      JM2024
      Helpful | Level 6
      2 years ago

      I forgot: I am also ignoring in dropbox a lot of this files (e.g .git )

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        JM2024
        Helpful | Level 6
        2 years ago

        Some more information for you:
        I have the same problem on another Notebook, running the same Linux-Mint version. This one has "only" 57462 items in the Dropbox-folder.

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