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I like DropBox very much but the soft limit of 300k files to see the whole tree directory in the desktop app is very bothersome. At least for those who, like I, have structured their archives in a tree-dependent way with many small files rather than few large ones, when that limit was not known, at least to me. Now is too laborious to switch back to another strategy. Remarkably my new flamant Tahoe MacBook Pro suffers this limitation very much, while my old, slow Monterey iMac does not! My question is: if a folder containing many files is zipped, it does it appear as a single file for DropBox? Has someone tried this possible solution? Of course, DropBox will be back on the top of my expectancies when this limit will be eliminated, but when?
Neal
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Community ManagerHi MikSam,
Yes zipping files would reduce the overall file count but it would also reduce the utility of the files. I'd recommend the best practice which is to use selective sync to no longer sync the folder you would zip.
This would leave the files fully accessible online but remove it from total number of synced files.
