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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...
Version Dropbox v194.3.6258 is working more better.
For me the problem is solved.
Thankyou
Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks 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.
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 shouldn´t be a challenge, right?
I forgot: I am also ignoring in dropbox a lot of this files (e.g .git )
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.Hi JM2024,
Execute following in terminal:
cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
What result does come back? Is it bigger of total number of files and folders in your Dropbox folder? If not, you have to increase it at least to the number of Dropbox folder entries number (again files and folders together). Dropbox uses this old technique, unfortunately, that make issues.
