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I have the "Dropbox Plus" subscription and I run the client on 4 computers.
Yesterday (Monday, 13-Jan-2020) I signed onto my desktop (which is always on) and has a full local sync of my dropbox that a number of new files added Saturday had big red Xs on them -- JPEGs I had scanned Saturday and which were in sync to my laptop on Sunday morning.
I checked my other workstation (also always on) and Dropbox wasn't even running. I launched it, and it pretty immediately ran a "one time update". Once this completed, it appeared to go into a full-on sync mode, indexing thousands of files and downloading thousands more (my total dropbox footprint is ~17k files, 600 GB of data). This has been running for 24 hours without making any apparent progress, despite the drive being materially in sync with my first workstation (using BeyondCompare to check). Plus not enough system activity to indicate any actual indexing or download was taking place.
I paused workstation 2, uninstalled dropbox on workstation 1 and reinstalled it. Just prior to this, workstation 1 was "stuck" uploading 2 files and downloading 7 files, which it had been on since last night.
Workstation 1 now shows "indexing" for around 8k files and "downloading" for 9k files. Trouble is, Resource Monitor doesn't show disk activity or network activity for that kind of activity.
What's going on? I was perfectly in sync as of Saturday morning and over the last 24 hours it's gotten bad.
Oddly, my laptop ("laptop 1") is apparently fine, showing more or less normal sync status as far as I can tell (and is on build 88.4.172).
Doing the same. Where are you moving?
Same here. I pay them 20 euros monthly and this 'support' was ridiculous. Thanks for the tip!
Having the same issue. Dropbox should realize that this problem is on THEIR SIDE. They messed up with the latest update. Don't waste your time trying to fix it by reinstalling etc. The only thing that helped me is to use the „Fix Hardlinks“ button (Preferences, Account, press spacebar to show Support Features). Press the button and then wait until it shows message it has finished fixing and you are good to go before you restart or turn off/on your PC again.
Same problem here. Dropbox only says "syncing..." nothing else. And my drop disk usage is 100% precent but no internet traffic. So what dropbox is doing? Re-hashing all files? Because thats stupid. I have 950gb+ files, so hassing them takes more timing then re-downloading them.
And please can you stop being like google, and test your software before releasing it?
Hello all, hoping you're all well today!
First of all, @Matt F.16 apologies for that! I will place the steps to do this via the command line on Linux devices in the "More info" box below since it's a little lengthy.
sudo chown "$USER" "$HOME" sudo chown -R "$USER" ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox sudo chattr -R -i ~/Dropbox sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox ~/.dropboxOnce the prompt displays, the instruction is complete and ready for the next command.
Since you're having issues with conflicted copies too @PatWard, I'd like to troubleshooting with you separately to avoid confusion so I'll be following up on the thread you mentioned ASAP!
For those still having an issue, could you try the steps listed here and let me know how it goes? (@gformenti, @Siwinis, @jeremyti)
@tonyskate, I'm glad to hear that using the "Fix Hardlinks" helps out to an extent. However, if restarting your device results in stuck syncing again then I'd like to do some further troubleshooting with you, if you'd like to of course.
Can I reached out to you via the email linked with your profile to look into this with you?
Finally, thanks for your update @Shawn B.14. I'll get back to you via our email communication once I've had a look into this with the additional info you gave me here.
Thanks for your patience everyone, I'll be awaiting your updates!
Daphne
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Thanks Daphne.
The conflicted files issue seems to of resolved itself after I fixed permissions. Right now I've been stuck syncing since Saturday with no apparent change and can't upload so seem to be in the same situation as many others here.
And I appreciate it can't be much fun working on a help forum .. we only come here when something has gone wrong ..
Cheers.
Hi @Daphne -- completed the commands, but no change.. Still stuck on a blank "Syncing..."
[Jan 21 07:44 PM][matt@server:~]$ dropbox.py status Syncing... [Jan 21 07:44 PM][matt@server:~]$ dropbox.py stop Dropbox isn't responding! [Jan 21 07:45 PM][matt@server:~]$ dropbox.py stop Dropbox isn't running! [Jan 21 07:45 PM][matt@server:~]$ dropbox.py stop Dropbox isn't running! [Jan 21 07:45 PM][matt@server:~]$ sudo chown "$USER" "$HOME" [sudo] password for matt: [Jan 21 07:45 PM][matt@server:~]$ sudo chown -R "$USER" ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox [Jan 21 07:45 PM][matt@server:~]$ sudo chattr -R -i ~/Dropbox chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/setLightsGetColorsLiving chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/setLightsFlashColorLiving chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/setLightsFlashColorBoys chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/setLightsColorBed chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/setLightsGetColorsBed chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/eth/geth chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/eth/blockchain/geth.ipc chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/setLightsPowerBed chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/babysit_lircd chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/setLightsFlashColorMatt chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/setLightsFlashColorBed chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/bin/setLightsPowerLiving chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/Documents/Technical/Backups/android-workspace/School chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/Documents/Technical/android-workspace/School chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/Documents/bin chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop1.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop3.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wPing3.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wPing2.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop9.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wWebcams4.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wWebcams2.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wWebcams7.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wWebcams1.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop6.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wPing5.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wWebcams6.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop10.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wPing4.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wWebcams8.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop8.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop5.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop12.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wWebcams5.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop7.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop2.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wPing1.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop11.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wWebcams3.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/Zend chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/mfp/widgets/wRemoteDesktop4.php chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/server/www/jarvis chattr: Operation not supported while reading flags on /home/matt/Dropbox/src/jarvis/ui/images/neticons/mnt [Jan 21 07:45 PM][matt@server:~]$ sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox [Jan 21 07:46 PM][matt@server:~]$ dropbox.py start Starting Dropbox...dropbox: locating interpreter dropbox: logging to /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-kYer41 dropbox: initializing dropbox: initializing python 3.7.5 dropbox: setting program path '/home/matt/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-88.4.172/dropbox' dropbox: setting python path '/home/matt/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-88.4.172:/home/matt/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-88.4.172/python-packages.zip' dropbox: python initialized dropbox: running dropbox dropbox: setting args dropbox: applying overrides dropbox: running main script dropbox: load fq extension '/home/matt/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-88.4.172/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/matt/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-88.4.172/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/matt/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-88.4.172/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/matt/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-88.4.172/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/matt/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-88.4.172/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/matt/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-88.4.172/apex._apex.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/matt/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-88.4.172/tornado.speedups.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' Dropbox isn't running! Done! [Jan 21 07:46 PM][matt@server:~]$ dropbox.py status Syncing... [Jan 21 07:46 PM][matt@server:~]$ dropbox.py status Syncing... [Jan 21 07:46 PM][matt@server:~]$ dropbox.py status Syncing...
The chattr "Operation not supported errors" are on symlinks, which makes sense. There are 10,000's other files that should be syncing.
Hi @Daphne, my account tab doesnt have this option to "Fix Hardlinks". I dont know if it is because I am part of team Dropbox. In our studio im the only one with this issue. I reinstalled 2 times already, and did those step in command prompt butstill
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