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I need to disable syncing in order to save changes in Photoshop.
There seems to be a change in the behavour in file sync. Now Dropbox interupt the saving process of an application (Planimate from InterDynamics). When the software saves it's file, I understand it d...
My issues have been solved without me doing any active part. My guess is some background update has fixed it.
(edit: the issues WAS solved for a time, but no longer)
My issues have been solved without me doing any active part. My guess is some background update has fixed it.
(edit: the issues WAS solved for a time, but no longer)
This is causing me a minor irritation lately, I have about 4-5 apps that this happens with. Is there any solution to this apart from stop syncing DB?
Not really. If there is a seperate temp directory then you can turn it into a symlink and dropbox will ignore it.
I would like to take this moment however to suggest a new feature that will help with this problem: Sync scheduling. Set it to sync once a minute and 99% of these sharing conflicts go away. It would certainly solve my dilemma of temp files that are created and destroyed almost immediately but the dropbox client keeps grabbing onto them and interfering with the process.
- Sync scheduling is a great suggestion! As you say, that would immediately solve 99% of these occurrences. Once in a while the schedule _could_ coincide with the saving of a temp file, and the problem would occur, but that should be rare enough to not really matter.
Can anyone recomend a backup software that works like the old Dropbox? I need something that does not impede the rapid creation, renaming, and deletion of temp files.
If the only option is to pause syncing, then i will be cancelling dropbox, and moving back to an old school external hard drive. If I have to pause syncing, then Dropbox does not offer any benefit over manually creating backups.
Come on... its 2020.
I have used MirrorFolder in the past to great success. Combined with Undelete, you have a pretty potent combo. Undelete keeps unlimited versions of files whether they were deleted, overwritten, or changed in any way.
EDIT: Undelete has changed their pricing to $50/month, so that's not a real option for most people. Mirrorfolder is still great and affordable.
I have been thinking of canceling the service too. The new Dropbox is super-slow, and always interfering with temporary files. So it is practically always closed and whenever needed, it takes close to half-hour to start and realize what needs to be synced.
