If someone else is filling up the scratch space on your desktop and preventing you from running Dropbox, either contact them yourself or email Remember that Dropbox's cache will take up some space so you may not have the full 40GB available for your data (of course this issue applies whatever file synchronisation program you use).There will generally be at least 40GB available in scratch space, depending on the size of your desktop's hard disk, and as people mostly use the scratch space on their own desktop you are unlikely to interfere with someone else's work by accidentally filling it up.

Keeping the Dropbox folder in your general scratch space /local/scratch/public/CRSID will not cause issues with Dropbox itself but will make extra work for the IT team who have to determine whether your scratch space needs to be preserved after you leave. We recommend giving it its own directory /local/scratch/public/CRSID-dropbox and this will happen automatically for new users of Dropbox on the Maths desktops. We regret that since Dropbox is third-party proprietary software we can only offer support on a best-effort basis.Īs mentioned above, the Dropbox folder must now be kept on local disk, which for Maths Linux desktops means in the /local/scratch/public directory. This means that the typical setup is not appropriate for our system where we have disk space quotas and home directories are stored on a central server and accessed over the network.įurthermore, on 7 November 2018 Dropbox stopped supporting keeping your folder on networked storage and the vast majority of Linux file systems. However it is designed for use on personal computers where the home directory is stored on local disk and has large amounts of space available. Dropbox is a popular service for synchronising a directory between different devices.

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