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Linux Mint 20 : DropBox no longer syncing despite syncing icon!
Hello all. I have followed the suggestions made by others but still I am not syncing. I upgraded to Linux Mint 20 yesterday and everything works as it should, except DropBox; a key app for me. I note...
STOP PRESS!
In the last 5 mins (just after I had posted the above). The folders and files have miraculously updated without any apparent syncing taking place!
It seems to be working.
I shall harvest the commans used in case I need them in the future. Meanwhile, thank you all very much for your patience and help.
Regards from a locked-down SW France.
John
🙂 Yes, as I have guessed 85186 is much bigger than 8192! The limit have to be above the actual value. Next some reserve addition, you can use the suggestion from the error, you have received previous, without any change. I'm repeating it below:
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p
To make sure limit is above the current entries count, repeat the check you just make in your previous post. Force Dropbox application to reload the just made settings using following:
dropbox stop; dropbox start; dropbox version; dropbox status
Check if the 'unwatched' entries are still unwatched (can be needed some time - many files are probably out of sync):
cd ~/Dropbox/ONLINE\ ONLY\ \(cloud\ storage\)/Dec\ 2014\ to\ Jan\ 2015.photolibrary/Database/; dropbox filestatus
🤔
Thanks very much. Done all that. No errors. Dropbox latest version and syncing. However, I am not yet seeing the hundreds of files that have been added / updated in the last four weeks.
I shall leave it to sync all day BUT, if we are still not syncing, is there anything else that we can do? For example remove all trace of Dropbox from my system and start over ?
It's clearly frustrating for you but more so for me when I think that my Win10 amd Mac systems work faultlessly as they have for YEARS !
Thanks for your support. John
user@AsusA54C:~$ echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -p [sudo] password for user: fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000 fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000 user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox stop Dropbox isn't responding! user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox stop Dropbox isn't responding! user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox start Starting Dropbox...dropbox: locating interpreter dropbox: logging to /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-LBJEwR dropbox: initializing dropbox: initializing python 3.7.9 dropbox: setting program path '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/dropbox' dropbox: setting python path '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517:/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/python-packages.zip' dropbox: python initialized dropbox: running dropbox dropbox: setting args dropbox: enabling allocator metrics dropbox: applying overrides dropbox: running main script dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/apex._apex.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/tornado.speedups.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtWidgets.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtCore.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtGui.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtNetwork.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' Dropbox isn't running! Done! user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox: load fq extension '/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-109.4.517/PyQt5.QtDBus.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so' cd ~/Dropbox/ONLIdropbox version Dropbox daemon version: 109.4.517 Dropbox command-line interface version: 2020.03.04 user@AsusA54C:~$ dropbox status Syncing 45,868 files • 2 hrs Indexing 273 files... Uploading 3 files... Downloading 45,592 files (0.0 KB/sec, 2 hrs) user@AsusA54C:~$
So, after almost 24 hrs syncing, Dropbox shows an up to date status. HOWEVER, the folders and files show me that nothing has synced for the poast month. I have executed Dropbox stop; Dropbox start and Dropbox status. Status now says and shows syncing but, after 30 seconds shows and reports Up to date. However the folders and files are NOT up to date.
Can anyone suggest what I can do, other than give up or return to a Win10 box ? :-(
STOP PRESS!
In the last 5 mins (just after I had posted the above). The folders and files have miraculously updated without any apparent syncing taking place!
It seems to be working.
I shall harvest the commans used in case I need them in the future. Meanwhile, thank you all very much for your patience and help.
Regards from a locked-down SW France.
John
Thank you, I had the exact same problem, and it seems the limit of "watched" files was ridiculously small. I have increased it to 500000 (instead of "just" 100000), just in case (I already have almost 300000 files in my Dropbox!)
Are you syncing to an external drive? The very basic interface for Dropbox
for Linux does not show my external drivesNo, I don't use it with external drives. I keep a backup of only the most important files on my external drive, leaving the bulk of the storing to Dropbox and the cloud...
