Dropbox rate limiting

[mfriedm]

My odrive has been syncing super slowly - like it’s taking weeks for it to resync my lightroom catalog:

2023-07-09_12:15:03PM 13040295936 13120221184 RAISED apply_remote_add_folder([u'parentUri=/4f142644-096e-41b9-a8aa-cbf1a287f509-59dde8b3//apps/readynas/maxbookapt-pictures/nas archive/catalog/lightroom catalog-2022-v12 previews.lrdata/6', u"localAttributesTree=localAttr=FileAttributes(id=u'16777231:9366331', name=u'6467', isFolder=True, size=64, modTime=1682097509, uri=u'/Users/maxf/odrive/Dropbox/Apps/ReadyNAS/MaxBookApt-Pictures/NAS archive/Catalog/Lightroom Catalog-2022-v12 Previews.lrdata/6/6467', contentTag=None), remoteUri=None"]) SystemException(code DB_RATE_LIMIT_REACHED caused by DropboxRateLimitingException(code DB_RATE_LIMIT_REACHED - {"error_summary": "too_many_write_operations/.", "error": {"reason": {".tag": "too_many_write_operations"}}}))

It looks like odrive is triggering some sort of dropbox rate limits. Has anyone else dealt with this? Any way around it?

[Tony]

Hi @mfriedm,

It looks like odrive is triggering some sort of dropbox rate limits.

That is correct. Dropbox is enforcing a limit on your uploads to their storage. Lightroom catalogs are notorious for having gigantic, sprawling structures with tens of thousands of folders and hundreds of thousands of files inside.

@mfriedm

Any way around it?

It looks like odrive is uploading as fast as Dropbox is allowing. I know some folks will exclude certain Lightroom structures, like “Previews” lrdata folders, using our advanced custom ignore feature:

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