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Syncing takes more time than normal lately and it's taking some time to start it up upon rebooting
NOTE: I posted this yeserday but it was marked as spam for some reason.
To clean up and speed things up, I recently reformatted the hard drive on my Mac and did a complete reinstall of everything i...
Thanks for keeping me in the loop throughout this, rf44!
Since you mention that you experienced high CPU usage, could you also have a look at this article, in case any of the listed suggestions help?
In the meantime, could you also have a look at your Support page to see your options to contacting our team?
Let me know what you find, cheers!
UPDATE: It appears that my ISP has throttled my speed, probably due to this running for days and also it's prime time. Speedtest shows download of 6.79mbps (was 70-ish) and upload of 1.5mbps! So perhaps this will go back up overnight.
Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for keeping me in the loop throughout this, rf44!
Since you mention that you experienced high CPU usage, could you also have a look at this article, in case any of the listed suggestions help?
In the meantime, could you also have a look at your Support page to see your options to contacting our team?
Let me know what you find, cheers!
Lusil, Thank you for keeping up on this.
The article you sent regarding CPU usage was very good. While most of it didn't apply (overall CPU usage is around 50-70%), the symlinks section led me to discover that I was selectively-synching many more folders than I thought, for a total of at least 1.5M files. There were about 450 symlinks that were copies of old Apple mail folders. I just discovered that the reason I missed these things was that the folder info on a Mac shows only files IN THAT FOLDER but does not include files in folders within it. Thus there were many many more files/folders than I thought.
Rather than fix this how and then have it restart the whole thing, I guess I'll grind it out and wait. It seems to be moving along pretty well at the moment--down to 200k files! In any case, it does seem that taking 3-4 days with decent bandwidth for that many files is a tad long. If you have any reference articles for next time please let me know.
Thank you again for the help!
Ron
This did finish much faster after I fixed the links (per Lusil's above and the article).
When it was done, I set up Selective Synch to get some folders off of the computer that I didn't need. It showed the same number of files (about 1.9M, I believe) but went much faster, still took around 12-15 hours.
Can someone provide general guidance on this topic? I want to know if the best approach is for me, if the files are not on the computer to keep the files in Dropbox then download, or restore from backup to the computer and wait for the upload? I'd think the latter would be much faster but haven't seen that yet.
Thank you again,
Ron
