I keep hitting the limits of @Dropbox and I'm starting to wonder how one person (me) can tilt it over when Dropbox has enterprise customers that presumably have larger requirements?
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There's a limit that if a folder has more than 10k files, it can't be moved via the web interface, you have to sync it locally and move it on your local file system. Which means both the target and destination folders have to be synced.
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Feb 16, 2020 · 5:19 AM UTC
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That seemed like a lot of juggling (and bandwidth), so instead I bought a 25TB hard drive and synced the entire thing locally. It took three weeks! But now I had a local backup, and I could finally organize my files.
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Except now the Dropbox sync software crashes. Turns out there's a soft limit of 300k files for syncing. It worked fine for me for a couple of months until the one day when it didn't.
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The solution from Dropbox when I hit the 10k folder limit? Sync it to my local computer. The solution from Dropbox when I hit the 300k sync limit? Don't sync it to my local computer. I'd find their contradictory advice amusing if I were not paying for "unlimited" storage.
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Adding to the overall burden: I have added files to my local instance, but I don't know which ones they are, so I can't just return to selectively syncing files as I'll lose them. I REALLY need the sync software to work.
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