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With a 300k File Limit - Does Dropbox Really Provide Business Solutions?
For many many years, I've been a Dropbox Pro member. During this time, they decided at some point, that 300,000 files is the maximum they will support. Now, I know what you are thinking. The ar...
I did not accept this as a solution (now fixed). It doesn't solve anything and is factually incorrect. At the time of your reply and this post, there is a baked in hard-limit in Dropbox that makes it unusable - and your support team refused to provide support to anyone with over 300K files. Nothing in your response you marked as the "answer" addresses this in any way shape or form. Wishing you had the answer isn't the same as providing one.
The right answer was moving to Google Drive and getting an actual business grade cloud based file sync solution in place.
By the way, I can tell you all that you really must keep copies of your files on a hardware drive in a computer at your site, and it needs to be RAIDED so you have warning when a drive is going belly up so you can do a swap and KEEP ALL THE FILES ALIVE. These online services are for CONVENIENCE, but we must stop thinking they're SECURE. You have to have your own fail-safe. I know that's expensive and not terribly convenient but it 'is what it is'. There is no other fail-safe approach. I have about 30TB online, but I also have every spec of it on my own fail-safed hardware.
hey joe, so i tried them all, the only one that no issues with file size & number and synced flawlessly was pcloud. they had the cloud only feature that dropbox introduced now ever since, but you cant search for files in your finder, only online. and their support is a bit slow. so when i heard about that dropbox update i thought i'd give it a go. i have cut down my file number from like 2 million files to 200000 by zipping a lot of folders, so the hardware copy contains all the original parts and dropbox only zipped backups where possible or necessary because of file numbers.
what always set dropbox apart from drive is the way it down/uploads..drive would need half an hour to start as it syncs all files everytime it starts...and then it would continue where it took off. for me this didnt work as it **bleep**ed up a lot of folders when i migrated files and their upload/download hierachy is somewhat linear, which means what comes first uploads first, that made things really messy. dropbox can upload various files at once, and i'm working with music - so this is essential: while uploading a big (recording) file i can at the same time update my program file, which inherits all the new important information, but is very low in size. so long story short - that didnt work with drive, it made things VERY VERY messy. pcloud did the job but i can search only online, ia also tried SYNC which worked, but has no search function at all (!!!) - and well so i'm back to dropbox with a new issue, that i'm trying to solve. their new smart sync feature unsmartly syncs folders its not supposed to. and it always happens when i'm workig on mobile data so just yesterday i wondered why my internet is gone and it was because of dropbox silently syncing a 10gb folder in the background, that i havent even selected, or needed or accessed otherwise. so apart from their file size issue (maybe this is exactly related to this??) they seem to have brought up new issues with the new features. i hope this is getting solved soon, as i really dont have the nerve for that and working only with hardware copies is not what i intend to. i can update this here, once they (hopefully) took care of this.
Thank you very much for your feedback! I will keep local 'hardcopies' of everything because I don't actually trust any of these services. I've been thinking that maybe the reason I haven't had issues is because I don't actually have more than 300,000 files on ONE computer(?), not sure. The one concern I have for this upcoming 'update' is that it is going to online-only sync when it updates apparently. Then I guess I have to go back in and re-sync all my devices. That's a little scary and I'm thinking about backing up all of my computers on external HDs to make sure I don't lose ANYTHING. I have (4) 10TB WDs and I think I'll just cover my butt here.
