Dropbox keeps saying, Downloading 67 files...

x-yuri

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 "source" laptop, and the problem persists (my uid on both laptops is 1000). There are not many files with spaces, and those that have them, they have them in the middle of a filename. I'm running Arch Linux, dropbox-176.4.5108. The sad thing is, there doesn't seem to be any logs to see what it's doing and what's the problem. I don't even know which files it can't download.

x-yuri

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.