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Moving a file is creating a copy in the original folder
Morning -When moving a file to another folder (sub or otherwise) The moved file will repopulate to it's original location, thus creating a copy. -The file repopulates within minutes or within a cou...
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorSorry to hear about this bnmitchell.
As I'd need to take a look at your account's and devices' logs to better help with this, would you like me to reach out to your Community's email address so we can look further into this?
In the meantime, have you checked the version history of an example file that's showing this behavior to see if they're being added back by a device you or a colleague of yours are using?
Years ago I wrote a Bash shell script that runs on macOS called shadow. I don't use it anymore, but it has the functionality described in this thread. That is: it can be used by the owner of a share to stop people with edit permission from deleting or moving files (and possibly confusing others in the share who can no longer find such files). I think back when I wrote it everyone in a share got edit rights. So, on any users' Macs do a search for shadow. If it is run with the name unshadow, it stops the re-syncs. Of course, someone may just be running rsync in the raw to get a similar affect. Hope that helps.
