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I keep seeing conflicted copies for my audio files, after using a third-party software.
Hi!
Recently I've been getting problems with duplicate files when I export audio files from my software directly into a Dropbox folder . One of them is labled "conflicted copy", (I think that's...
Hi again, sorry for the delay. I havn't had time to look closer at this until today. Quitting the app on the computer does not help, it still happens. I just exported an audio file to look at what happens. The export process takes a minute or two, however the file is visible in finder as soon as the export has started. I noticed that the dropbox update/upload symbol showed next to the file name in finder, the one with a circle/clock getting filled, while the file was still in the process of being exported. However, it works fine and as expected. However, two minutes after the export was completed, the conflicted copy appeared, and the original audio file is now incomplete, it has shorter duration that it should and stops abruptly.
It doesn't seem to be 100% reproducable though, I tried the exact same thing again and this time the conflicted copy has not yet shown.
I have not made any updates to the third party software before this started, nor to my OS.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
JoelBille wrote:
Quitting the app on the computer does not help, it still happens. ... I noticed that the dropbox update/upload symbol showed next to the file name in finder ...
Make sure you're quitting the application and that Dropbox is not running, and test it again. Dropbox can't sync files and the sync icons would not be visible if the Dropbox application isn't running.
Thank you! You're right, dropbox seems to be running in the background somehow. I do want it to, I've built my workflow around having the dropbox app running so it wouldn't be a solution to quit the app, that would mean stop using dropbox in my case. But it might be useful for diagnostics I suppose.
After quitting the app using the menubar, there's still two processes running: DropboxFileProvider and DropboxFileProviderCH. I also see that dropbox updated FileProvider in june, that's probably the change that caused this problem. I've also noticed that I had "Online Only" as default setting for new files, could be that. I tried to change it to "available offline", lets see if that helps.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hey JoelBille - thanks for the additional information there.
Could you clarify how exactly you're exporting these files in the first place? Do you see anything odd in their version history or in your events page?
