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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I have a LOT of files (over a million) and I kept them mostly virtual on Dropbox, with just a small subset synced locally. It worked really well except for when I wanted to organize my files.
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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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Feb 16, 2020 · 5:19 AM UTC
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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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