Dropbox gives me pop-up errors about not being able to monitor the file system (that quickly disappear) when it starts up but it still seems to work ok, why is that?
Dropbox – Fix Error About Monitoring File System
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Dropbox gives me pop-up errors about not being able to monitor the file system (that quickly disappear) when it starts up but it still seems to work ok, why is that?
Best Answer
On Linux, the Dropbox client is subject to a default system limit on the number of directories it can monitor for changes. There is a warning regarding this, along the lines of:
This comes up often in the Dropbox Forums, and they have a mention of it in their "Why aren't certain files on one computer syncing to another?" document: