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I worked on and synced a file and it synced as 0 bytes
I was working on a R script. The moment I saved the file and quit RStudio, the script file which is synced in a dropbox folder is turned to a 0 byte file. When I tried to open the file from dropbox w...
Are you on a Mac by any chance?
Mac's create 0 byte files which are then populated with data as they are 'saved'. It sounds like Dropbox has saved the 0byte file that was created at the start of the save but then its not sync'd correctly due to the error given - which my guess is because Dropbox then locked that file while it sync'd. Thats almost certainly why its not saved updates as well during day unless you are over quota and so syncing isnt working.
Unfortunately if its not saved locally (to the folder) or available as a recovered file when you open the software its not saved and so not recoverable. It wont be in recycle bin etc. unless you actually moved it there.
www.dropbox.com/events will show you what has sync'd to the system.
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi scarlettalex, if you're on a paid plan, then you can make your files available offline by right clicking the folders for the files to download to your machine.
JanaV, I'm glad to hear you were able to fix the file sizes, in general if a file is offline on the machine, it wouldn't be zero bytes.
Thank you that def worked!
