I have dropbox 52.4.58
installed on a Linux VM (Lubuntu 18.04 LTS). The dropbox instance can never finish syncing my folder and reach the Up to date
status as a Windows version does on the same folder. Instead, the icon on Linux status bar always shows a busy status, and when hovering the mouse over it, it says:
Downloading 9 files...
for days. .
Currently, the folder does not seem to be in sync on my Windows and Linux machines. I have to stop and resume sync on the Linux instance to keep the folder synchronized. (The windows version works fine, and synchronize changes in minutes.) If I do so, dropbox (Linux) will restart indexing all files, and the changes will be pushed to other machines.
I also found a similar issue reported here.
Is it possible to show the 9 files
that are being downloaded?
(If it's the same files causing the problem, I hope I can identify them and delete them. I'm familiar with python and linux shell. Any suggestions there are welcome.)
-- Update --
I did a shell query (as follows) for all file status as suggested in the comments, filtering out files that are up to date
or unwatched
. But the query returns nothing, meaning the files are either up to date
or unwatched
. Any further suggestions?
$ find /file/Dropbox -type f -exec dropbox filestatus {} \; | grep -v 'up to date' | grep -v 'unwatched'
find ~/Dropbox -type f -exec dropbox filestatus {} \; | grep 'syncing'
.