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 error about monitoring file system
dropbox;file sharing;files
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:Unable to monitor filesystemPlease run: echo 100000 | sudo tee  /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches and restart Dropbox to correct  the problem.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:Monitoring more than 10000 foldersThe Linux version of the Dropbox desktop application is limited from  monitoring more than 10000 folders by default. Anything over that is  not watched and, therefore, ignored when syncing. There's an easy fix  for this. Open a terminal and enter the following:> echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=100000 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf; sudo sysctl -pThis command will tell your system to  watch up to 100000 folders. Once the command is entered and you enter  your password, Dropbox will immediately resume syncing.