Operating System
Arch Linux
Operating System and Dropbox Version are the latest.
I installed a new Arch Linux OS yesterday, and today Dropbox completely destroyed it by its endless default auto-syncing feature. I have to reinstall the OS again. So basically, Dropbox has a default setting of downloading (syncing) every files automatically locally when installing. This is not the first time I have this kind of problem. Last time when I reinstalled my Windows 11 OS, I had to switch to another SSD because Dropbox insists I don't have enough space to download everything in the current one.
After I installed Dropbox on the new Arch Linux system, it did not mention this issue like on Windows. It just silently keeps downloading everything without letting me know, since this has been a default option. And finally, every space I assigned to Arch Linux was occupied, the BTRFS partition collapsed after there was not any single available space left. I tried multiple methods to revive the operating system but failed. I lost every progress I made and had to start again to reinstall the system.
I see that in the current Dropbox Windows UI there is an option of a preference of default syncing way. However, I am very sure that when installing it on Linux OS, there was not a notification or alert about this, and it was just kept defaultly to sync everything locally.
