- #Avoid sync issues between dropbox and dropsync update#
- #Avoid sync issues between dropbox and dropsync windows 10#
Just My Humble Opinion, but it would perhaps be good if Dropbox could find a way to "officially" support the use of symlinks. But I suspect that the same thing would happen. But, what I've done thus far is shared only with myself I've not tried sharing amongst others, simply because thus far I've not needed to. That accomplishes exactly what I intended: the ability to "carry work home" and voila, there it is on the office PC instantly.
Changes from other computers as well as from the Dropbox web portal are reflected to the "host" machine vitually instantly, as long as it is online.
#Avoid sync issues between dropbox and dropsync update#
As long as I remember to "force" the re-sync, everything falls out as I wanted, giving me the ability to "carry things around" from computer to computer without all the aggravation / overhead of copying to USB's etc which ends up duplicating data and creating version control headaches.Īfter doing some more experimenting, I note that the problem as I've described is apparently uni-directional: Changes made on the "host" machine (the one with the symlinks in the Dropbox folder) need the "forced" update as described. The use of symlinks seems to work quite well, except for the "update" bug I originally mentioned. I've not observed any of the issues mentioned in the article your link pointed me to. Is there a way to get this to happen automatically? If I do remember to do this, everything is fine. The result is that, without remembering to do this, the Dropbox copy never updates, (unless exited and restarted) either by "logging on" through the web site, or on another computer using the app and same login credentials. Click again, and it then updates and syncs the files. I click that, then it says "Syncing paused". Hover mouse and it changes to "Pause syncing". I click the Dropbox icon, the lower left says "Up to date". This works fine, except that when files in _real_documents_folder are changed, they do not get "synced" on Dropbox unless I "force" it. On the "host" machine, rather than copying (and thus duplicating) all files to the Dropbox folder, I create a symbolic link in the Dropbox folder, using the command prompt:
#Avoid sync issues between dropbox and dropsync windows 10#
Using Windows 10 and the Dropbox app, recently downloaded / installed so I believe it is fully up to date. I am having an issue concerning dropbox syncing when using symbolic links.
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