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Stop Dropbox from attempting to sync a socket
I am continually seeing an error about op-daemon.sock (a socket created/used by 1Password, but this is just a specific example) with a completely misleading description that the filename contains inv...
Hi Rob B.35,
The error / help text here is _definitely_ unhelpful. It should just tell you that syncing special files (in this case, a unix domain socket I think) is not supported. We're working on fixing the error text.
The actual underlying error here is that the item is not a regular file (or dir or symlink), and the sync engine is refusing to sync it for that reason. The error itself is safe to ignore. The sync engine can't/wont sync that file, and if I understand correctly, that's the desired end state anyway.
Right now I don't think we have a way to permanently suppress the error, since as you discovered you can't add the com.dropbox.ignored xattr to a unix domain socket.
Here's a screenshot.
The filename is op-daemon.sock
I'm currently running the Beta (if you mean in the upper-left of the pop-up)
It's specifically *this* file that is reported. I don't know if there are other sockets that are being process (or ignored!) successfully. Note that this file does not appear in the Finder, which makes the "Go to file" option somewhat confusing. From a terminal I can produce:
$ ls -ltra
total 8.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 rab staff rab 66 2023-01-05 15:07 plugins.sh
drwx------ 4 rab staff rab 128 2023-01-05 15:22 plugins/
srwxr-xr-x 1 rab staff rab 0 2023-01-23 17:50 op-daemon.sock=
drwx------ 6 rab staff rab 192 2023-01-23 17:50 ./
-rw------- 1 rab staff rab 144 2023-01-23 17:50 config
drwxr-xr-x 9 rab staff rab 288 2023-03-23 15:23 ../
(Note that the / and = are indications of the file type, namely, direcory or socket, and not part of the names.)
BenDBX
Community Manager
Community ManagerHi Rob B.35
I have handed this issue off to a specialized team who is currently investigating. We will update you when we have more information!
Regards,
Ben
radical_exponentDropbox Engineer
Hi Rob B.35,
The error / help text here is _definitely_ unhelpful. It should just tell you that syncing special files (in this case, a unix domain socket I think) is not supported. We're working on fixing the error text.
The actual underlying error here is that the item is not a regular file (or dir or symlink), and the sync engine is refusing to sync it for that reason. The error itself is safe to ignore. The sync engine can't/wont sync that file, and if I understand correctly, that's the desired end state anyway.
Right now I don't think we have a way to permanently suppress the error, since as you discovered you can't add the com.dropbox.ignored xattr to a unix domain socket.
