Does Dropbox have file count limit?

Question

I've just symlinked several of my home subdirectories (.vim, .purple, .Skype, mostly append-only catalogs of fine-grained historical data) into Dropbox folder for hassle-free backup, and now watching Dropbox uploading 20,000+ (400 Mb worth) of files, which is well within my space quota.

I'm pretty sure it will succeed, but I've realized that I know nothing of file count limits of Dropbox.

Does any one have any experience with respect to this very parameter?

I will also write to Dropbox support and post their answer here.

UPD. Success. «You added 33697 files» is said at the Events page.

Answer 1

It DOES have a limit in 2 senses as I have just discovered.

The first is the total number of files, which Dropbox itself states that above 300.000 files the performance of Dropbox will decline noticeably. Have a read here: http://www.businessinsider.com/maximimum-number-of-files-dropbox-can-handle-2013-9

Also there is a maximum of files that can be contained in an unshared folder that is than shared. I don't know what the exact limit is, but it gave me an error saying "This folder has too many files to share at once. Please move some files out, try a subfolder, or contact support for assistance." The folder I am trying to share currently contains just above 100.000 files.