i don't require version control, i prefer to work locally and then backup folders all at once. i don't think i've ever used the extended version history i pay for on dropbox, but something like backblaze's 30 days may not be long enough if there was an actual fire or whatever

Kanał by Andrzej Wajda goes hard in this category

you got this! the effort is worth it

it only seems to affect users with hundreds of thousands of files it seems

the more i look at others' feedback on the community hub, and the behaviour of the program (filling my C: drive with log files, hundreds of GB / day), makes me feel it's a bad software update (they happen automatically). i wouldn't be surprised if someone let AI rewrite a bunch of the crucial code

i'll go with repeated zips but more of them to spread the risk of corruption

i've been doing delete then replace for game projects for a while for that reason. it's one of those that cause this though ... it didn't like the millions of Unity tmp files i guess

but it is my third line of defence after two internal HD's on an auto backup schedule (soon to be fourth when i get this NAS) so i guess the reduced security is acceptable tradeoff

i'm going to start archiving the cloud backups (though it is tedious and will take ages because i need to make sure i have access to the bounces of tracks). i prefer the full file structure because it is more secure (bit rot can kill a zip more easily) but there are just too many files as you say

that's wild :o you should be extremely satisfied!

others experiencing the same issue on their community pages have tried reinstalling to no avail. not looking promising

it's not the destination, it's the journey...

dropbox has stopped syncing at all. so i'll have to:

- first uninstall the app
- delete all the local data
- reinstall
- then selectively sync folders one by one and extract them to the new drive, then unsync and move on, so as not to fall foul of their '300K file limit'

they make it hard

despite the heavy outlay i figure i'll start profiting in about 3 years or so relative to dropbox costs (to say nothing of the downtime it manages to often cause)

actually i looked into that and i don't think that's possible due to manchester's cold and humidty (though i have the outbuilding). guess i'll have to keep a cloud service around, but will look into one that isn't dropbox

my NAS will be in a seperate building for sure.

anyway, i always seem to have one of these kinds of crisis involving cloud storage every few years, so i'm swearing off it. going to make my own

one more point i'll make is that the app happily synced for over 6 years without issue with over 1.5 million files locally. which is how i know that it's the app at fault, and nothing to do with the mythical 300K files