Just because Dropbox automates the synchronization of files does not mean that it can’t be prone to bugs or strange behaviors. git subfolder had caused all sorts of strange behaviors, so I had very strong suspicions about this, and promptly deleted the folder and restarted Dropbox.ĭropbox started up and the icon was reporting movement with indexing, uploading, and downloading. But surely the fact it was empty meant it was a red herring? Well, I’d recently run into a similar issue with Git, where a. When I thought about it, these folders had at one time been part of another dropbox installation from many years ago. What this led me to (aside from access to the dropbox meta-database) was a directory path (coincidently the one and the same I had moved) which contained in its directory structure an empty folder name called. If you are using a Windows environment you can use the procman utility to monitor file access. Ls -l /proc/$(pidof dropbox)/fd | egrep -v 'pipe:|socket:|/dev'
Since my environment was Linux based I used the following: I decided to try and find out where the process was “stuck” and wanted to detect file access. The odd thing was that these stats just did not change. Looking at the Dropbox icon feedback, all I could see was a large number of files apparently needing downloading, indexing of contents occurring, and a certain number of files uploading. I had somehow made the mistake of renaming a folder name from Pascal casing to lowercase and moved some files around, and ever since that time, my Dropbox would not complete synchronization (of at least that folder casing change) despite other new files seemingly syncronizing fine.Īfter many days I decided to investigate further. I recently ran into an issue where my Dropbox icon just kept spinning and spinning and believed it was related to some weird conflict resolution problem across different machines that I had run into by accident. This post is my placeholder to help myself – and hopefully you! Normally I don’t like off-topic style posts, and Dropbox is certainly not within my key areas of interest, however, I am an avid user and every now and then I run into a problem that is frustrating and worrying -given a large number of important files I store on that platform.
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