You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
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.
OneDrive still limits max file size. It used to be 10GB (but now appears to be 250GB?). Also, didn't they drop their equivalent to Selective Sync?
hello there
quick update after quite a few tests with other services...
as said i tried google drive (which works fine for shared docs but turned out to be a nightmare with the way it syncs files, i lost hundreds of photographs and music files thanks to gdrive) and also sync and that swiss service i can't remember the name of.
to be honest all of them do certain things better and have a few different features, but in terms of reliability they're all in the same ballpark. if you really have files that are actually worth something to you, you might wanna consider 2 cloud services and a physical backup as well, that's the way to go. i also decluttered my box and zipped folders with thousands of small files, which i do not use frequently, which helped a lot. this is not only a problem of dropbox itself, also copy paste processes on macs just like pcs take a lot longer and are prone to errors, if a folder has a few 1000 files (which doesn't necessarily mean, it's a big folder in size). anyways, that helped and also a proper internet connection does make a huge difference. recently switched from 50mpbs to 250 and just let the computer plus dropbox do its work overnight and voila, it did work out several times in the near past.
i think they also must have increased the limit, as i do have dropbox business again with a 3x5tb plan and my main has about 850000 files. haven't had a single issue in months and i migrated resp copied my entire box 4 times on/over various systems. in fact the only system that fussed a little bit, was my old desktop pc, the macs - and especially the new ones - are working like a charm.
so for now i'm happy and fine again with db, let's see what the future brings.
