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Pascale2
6 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Folder upload fails on Dropbox.com
Hi, I just started with Dropbox Plus. I tried to upload large folders to Dropbox, which took quite a long time (sometimes about 2 days for some of the folders).
When the uploading was finished, I ...
- 6 years ago
There is. Theres a feature called Selective Sync. In the settings, you go to Sync tab, and go to Selective Sync. You select which folder that you WANT to see on your Hard Drive. The folders that is not picked, the Client will delete from Harddrive but will keep on the cloud. This sounds like what you want.
More info here: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/sync-uploads/selective-sync-overview
MaksMaks991
Helpful | Level 6
Sometimes uploading a large set of files we see a message at the end of operation stated that some files are failed to upload to Dropbox. But there is no any button to quickly retry uploading of them.
Our real scenario. We started uploading a folder containing about 10k files. After several hours when the operation was complete we saw the message mentioned above. Opening details we got almost unresponsive (due to the count of files) window with the list of all files. Somewhere in the middle of this list we found those failed files. Some of them were from one subfolder, some from another one. Wasted about 1 hour of my time I collect all failed subfolders. When I tried to upload them again all was fine, files were uploaded.
So my obvious question is why do you force people to waste the time on actions that can be easily do automatically? Just give please ability to rerun upload for failed files/folders.
Our real scenario. We started uploading a folder containing about 10k files. After several hours when the operation was complete we saw the message mentioned above. Opening details we got almost unresponsive (due to the count of files) window with the list of all files. Somewhere in the middle of this list we found those failed files. Some of them were from one subfolder, some from another one. Wasted about 1 hour of my time I collect all failed subfolders. When I tried to upload them again all was fine, files were uploaded.
So my obvious question is why do you force people to waste the time on actions that can be easily do automatically? Just give please ability to rerun upload for failed files/folders.
Mark
4 years agoSuper User II
Dropbox isnt designed to be used via the website - its designed to be used via the software on a desktop where auto reuploads etc. automatically happen. The website is intended to be used when your main computer isnt available.
Can you not install the software and upload that way?
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