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x-yuri
2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Dropbox keeps saying, Downloading 67 files...
Hi,
There's a similar topic, but nothing there works for me. Holding Space doesn't reveal any hidden buttons. I had files owned by root, but I changed the owner to my user (uid 1000) on the "s...
- 2 years ago
Solved it by temporarily moving the problem directory out of the Dropbox dir:
* on the target machine: stop the daemon and `mv ~/Dropbox/problem/dir ~`
* on the source machine: `mv ~/Dropbox/problem/dir ~` and wait until it syncs
* on the target machine: start the daemon and wait until it syncs
* `mv ~/dir ~/Dropbox/problem` on the source machine and wait until it syncs on both machines
* now ~/dir can be deleted on the target machine
This is in case you know that the target machine has no newer files.
P.S. As shows this discussion Dropbox desperately needs some kind of a log or a way to find out what's causing problems. The lack of it leads to unproductive discussions of a "what if you do this?" (guessing) kind.
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi x-yuri, if the files are visible on the site, can you try adding a test file to one of those directories to see if this somehow helps them to sync down to the machine?
x-yuri
2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Solved it by temporarily moving the problem directory out of the Dropbox dir:
* on the target machine: stop the daemon and `mv ~/Dropbox/problem/dir ~`
* on the source machine: `mv ~/Dropbox/problem/dir ~` and wait until it syncs
* on the target machine: start the daemon and wait until it syncs
* `mv ~/dir ~/Dropbox/problem` on the source machine and wait until it syncs on both machines
* now ~/dir can be deleted on the target machine
This is in case you know that the target machine has no newer files.
P.S. As shows this discussion Dropbox desperately needs some kind of a log or a way to find out what's causing problems. The lack of it leads to unproductive discussions of a "what if you do this?" (guessing) kind.
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