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New macOS app – bumpy ride. Script/access issues, indexing…
I have to say that the “new” Dropbox (167.4.419 as of now) app for macOS has been a bumpy ride, and that’s putting it mildly. I have been a happy paying customer for more than five years, but for the...
Wintermute sorry to hear about your sync and Spotlight issues. I hope those have resolved, and also that you have the latest version of Dropbox. Even in the old days I found that the "Up to date" message was not always actually true. On my M1 mini I'm on 168.3.4787, and my files moved to CloudStorage only in the last month or so.
I found your post after discovering that a shell script of mine apparently can't use a file stored in Dropbox as an argument. Specifically, this is a zsh script within an Automator service; the script uses pandoc to convert Markdown to RTF, and I use pandoc's `-H` argument to supply a css file. If the css file is stored in Dropbox the script fails, whereas it used to be fine.
In other words I'm only trying to read the file, not write or copy it. Do you think this is the same kind of issue that you mentioned in your first point? If so, I agree it's a real pain. I guess there are ways to run a script as root…
I use Automator services for other file-processing jobs that work OK in the Dropbox folder. Do we assume that an app like Automator has the necessary privileges but the shell doesn't?
Hello chazzo1 ,
I was able to resolve the scripting problems (1) – like you, I’m working with Pandoc, plus a bunch of shell scripts, and cpio wouldn’t work over the Dropbox symlink.
However, I found that the scripts will “play nice” if you cd to the actual location (at cd /Users/ [user name] /library/cloudstorage/dropbox/ [code location] and work from there. You may be able to get your script working by doing the same with the path to your CSS.
Other than that, I know next to nothing about Automator, so I can’t help much.
The Spotlight indexing issue (3) was resolved using the tip linked by Jay above.
What remains for me is the unspecific “Syncing…” state that just won’t stop (2), so I have no idea what is happening. Even after four days and multiple relaunches, it hasn’t gone away, although I’m only sing 1% of my 2TB quota.
I may just end up moving all my files out of Dropbox and then back in, hoping this will lead to a fully synced state.
