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Dropbox Integration: No worky?

I have tried to sync my dropbox account yesterday (twice) and today again with no joy. Do I need to wait longer? Is there something else that I am missing besides following the wiki instructions (https://www.pythonanywhere.com/wiki/UsingDropbox)?

Unfortunately Dropbox got a bit stuck overnight. We're going to tidy up some old users' folders to try and unblock it... It may take several hours or a couple of days to clear its backlog though.

If you're in a hurry, you could look into alternatives? A VCS code sharing site like Github or Bitbucket is a great central place to keep your code, and you'll be able to push and pull from both PA and your own machine...

Is there a max speed synching with Dropbox?

  • What is that speed?
  • Is the speed limit set by DB or PA?
~a2j

We don't set a speed limit, but I suspect Dropbox do.

Dropbox still seems stuck. Hasn't updated in a day or so. Maybe the elves are too busy...

We have a huge backlog of files that need to be updated, but it is dropping. It's a bit difficult to predict when it will be done because it's quite bursty, but averaging over the last few days it looks like it's still a few days from completion.