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Dropbox StaffStable Build 88.4.172
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Same problem.
In windows 10 v1909, dropbox client v88.4.172 constantly sync forever...(about 2 days).
MacOS client still working fine.
Same here. On both my win 10 machines, on hovering the Dropbox client icon, I see a message like
"Dropbox 88.4.172
Indexing 1 file...
Uploading 24,856 files (0,0 KB/sec, 6 hrs)...
Downloading 32,504 files..."
And it didn't change for more than 24 hours now. Please help!
My Windows 10 Dropbox clients are also stuck "Syncing..." with no further info.
Version 88.4.172
Same problem here on a headless Ubuntu 18.04 server.. I have 1 TB of dropbox data and since the most recent update the Dropbox client eats 100% CPU (one core) and never finishes syncing no matter what I try.
Hi Matt F.16,
You can check which files exactly are 'guilty' and investigate further, what's wrong using something like:
dropbox filestatus $(IFS=$'\n';base_path="";for i in `ls -R -1 ~/Dropbox`; do if [[ "$i" =~ ":" ]]; then base_path=`echo "$i" | sed "y/:/\//"`; elif [[ "m$i" != "m" ]]; then echo -n " $base_path$i"; fi; done) | grep -vi "up to date"
Note that "dropbox" command is a script, so processing is relatively slow. You would get "dummy" output if some file name (for directory, even more, all content) contain space! That's Dropbox BUG! Check and see what's the state for particular files. Something like:
ls -l ~/Dropbox/Troublesome/file.ext
Good luck.
Now my Windows 10 Dropbox client is stuck "uploading 1 file" and "downloading 2 files" even after restarts. Frustrating, since there is seemingly no way to find out which.
This seems to have happend after upgrading to this version.
Same problem on Windows 10. My MacOS is OK.
3 days syncing and no progress.
Saved the problem, with the following actions:
- Delete all the "conflicted" files
- Restarted the box
- Stopped all other services which access files, such as OwnCloud, Skype, Update Services etc.
- Reinstalled Dropbox Client
Quite tedious, but finally successful.
I had the same issue with endless "Syncing" on my Linux Mint Debian box (the tooltip just showed "Syncing..." with no additional information regarding how many files etc.).
I then closed DropBox and started again from command line in order to see if there's some useful output - and actually there was:
erik@thinkpad:~$ Unable to monitor entire Dropbox folder hierarchy. Please run "echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p" and restart Dropbox to fix the problem.
I executed the command given in the error, and now I see at least some hints in the tooltip regarding number of files to be up- / downloaded (=> this information was missing previously).
So not quite sure if this could be helpful for others, but keeping fingers crossed!
Cheers, Erik
Found a problem with this new release, it seems to remove file permissions when the file is sync'd from another computer.
For example lets say in Windows I've added a user to a folder. Then on that same machine I create a file withi nthat folder. It gains the permissions of the folder correctly.
But if I then edit that file on another computer, it syncs the change to the first computer but the file loses the permissions of its parent folder even though I've told Windows to make all the sub-folders and files within that folder inheret the permissions.
This creates an obvious problem where the users I've told to be able to edit those files (or even programs that create users for permission use) cannot then interact with those files anymore.
Please provide a fix for this as it's a huge feature regression.
