I'm wary just because down the road I can see myself making a change in an old file on my computer in an unlinked folder and forgetting that it's not backing up into Dropbox. I hadn't considered selective sync on my main machine - I'll think about that. It took two days just to fully sync so we'll see how it goes now that that's finished.
In unlinking and relinking the account I realized I have *well* over 100,000 files (after half a day of indexing/synccing it was still at over 700k). I think I figured that on start-up it might take a bit to figure out if anything has changed since the last sync, but otherwise while it stayed running it would more or less ignore anything that hadn't changed so it wouldn't matter how many files there were (I clearly have very little idea how this all actually works - lol). I didn't realize that Dropbox would slow down at a certain point. We've had to resort to emailing the file because the syncing is taking too long. I have two Macs that are linked to the same Dropbox account and I use Dropbox to keep the files synced across the two computers so I can work on a file, close it, let it sync, and then my co-author can open it and work on it, etc. The files I'm trying to sync are Scrivener files made up of individual txt files (so it's about 714 txt files). In the past a sync like that would take a couple of minutes max. I have no limits on the bandwidth and a speed test shows my current download speed at 230 mbps and upload speed at 15 mbps. I'm on a MacBook Pro running 10.11.5 and running Dropbox 21.4.25. I made change to several files and they haven't syncced yet. Under "recent files," the last synced file was 45 minutes ago.
I rebooted my computer and it took about 20 minutes for Dropbox to finish "starting" and then it indexed and syncced in a pretty standard amount of time. Dropbox seems to be running really really slow and since it's how I share files with a co-author it's causing big problems.
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