[itslennysfault]

Typical Dropbox...

I've been bugging them about a solution to the file limit for at least a year with no response. I finally got a (public) response by tweeting at them. They said they would follow up with me and they never did. Even a "we can't fix this" would be better than the dead air I've received.

I really don't know how they intend to compete with the software giant's similar offerings if it's not via superior customer service.

For anyone not aware of the file count issue you cannot have more than ~300,000 files on dropbox before it totally falls apart. I was paying for 1TB of storage and using about 3% of it when it totally stopped syncing.

[AYBABTME]

inotify has a limit on how many watches can be held. I don't think that 300k limit is particular to Dropbox, any tool working on the same principle will hit that limit.

[ars]

They should watch the directory, not the file.

The limit is found here: /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches and defaults to 8K, not 300K, so I don't think it's the cause of this problem.

[AYBABTME]

You're right, I was mistaken. The limit is a user limit.