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files missing in synced folders on Linux, but not online or on Windows
I've been using Linux for a few months and the Linux version of Dropbox has been great. Recently, though, I wiped Linux, installed Windows, and then installed Linux again so I can dual-boot. I didn't have this problem on Linux before. All the folders and sub-folders are showing up, and some are synced perfectly, but others will have some files in them and not others. All the folders in question are checked on selective sync and should be syncing.
Al the files are showing up correctly in Windows. The files are also present on my online Dropbox. Since setting up the dual-boot, I've added files on Windows, and those have all synced properly to the Linux folder.
All of the missing files I've noticed have been Photoshop files, but there might be other kinds I just haven't noticed yet. Other Photoshop files are there, though! A lot of the new files I added in Windows are Photoshop files, and again, those are all showing up on Linux perfectly. Dropbox on Linux says that everything is synced.
How can I get all the files to show up on Linux again?
I don't know if I explained this very clearly, let me know and I can clarify anything that didn't make sense.
Hi sleepysloth,
Some more information would be helpful. Can you provide additional information about currently running application and environment? Post the following commands results (executed one by one):
dropbox version dropbox status sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
How many files/folders reside in your Dropbox folder? As an alternative, you can post the result of following command:
db_path=`jq -r '.personal.path' ~/.dropbox/info.json`; echo -n "Your Dropbox folder $db_path entries approximate count is "; tree -a "$db_path" | wc -l
You may need install 'jq' and/or 'tree' if some of them are missing on your system.
Let's hope the above results will clarify what's going on. 🤔
For the first one, my results were:
dropbox version
Dropbox daemon version: 112.4.321
Dropbox command-line interface version: 2020.03.04dropbox status
Up to datesysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 65536For the last one, I did have to install jq and tree but after that I got confused. I couldn't figure out where my .dropbox directory should be. My Dropbox folder is in /mnt/sdc1. I found a .dropbox in there, but when I tried ~/mnt/sdc1/Dropbox/.dropbox/info.json, like so
db_path=`jq -r '.personal.path' ~/mnt/sdc1/Dropbox/.dropbox/info.json`; echo -n "Your Dropbox folder $db_path entries approximate count is "; tree -a "$db_path" | wc -l
jq gave a "No such file or directory" error. I also tried ~/.dropbox/info.json and ~/mnt/sdc1/.dropbox/info.json and got the same results. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to change another part of the command?
I don't know if this is the same info you're looking for but I do know that there are over 200,000 files and folders in my Dropbox. I sync the whole 800GB of it on Linux because I have the space (the sdc1 partition is 6TB) and I like to have all my files somewhere other than the cloud.
sleepysloth wrote:...
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 65536For the last one, I did have to install jq and tree but after that I got confused. I couldn't figure out where my .dropbox directory should be. My Dropbox folder is in /mnt/sdc1. I found a .dropbox in there, but when I tried ~/mnt/sdc1/Dropbox/.dropbox/info.json, like so
db_path=`jq -r '.personal.path' ~/mnt/sdc1/Dropbox/.dropbox/info.json`; echo -n "Your Dropbox folder $db_path entries approximate count is "; tree -a "$db_path" | wc -l
jq gave a "No such file or directory" error. I also tried ~/.dropbox/info.json and ~/mnt/sdc1/.dropbox/info.json and got the same results. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to change another part of the command?
I don't know if this is the same info you're looking for but I do know that there are over 200,000 files and folders in my Dropbox. I sync the whole 800GB of it on Linux because I have the space (the sdc1 partition is 6TB) and I like to have all my files somewhere other than the cloud.
Hi sleepysloth,
I haven't mentioned that you need to change anything in the command and you should avoid such change! ☝️Just copy/paste it. 😉 That's it.
The number of files/folders in your account should be less than maximum number of watches allowed. Since in your case that isn't true ( 65536 < 200000 ), you have to change this system setting. Figure out exact number of files and folders in your Dropbox folder (together), so be able decide exact value for fs.inotify.max_user_watches update (with some reserve of course).
PS: Take a look here, so we can avoid repeat something already discussed.
Hope this gives right direction.
