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gustavoexel
Explorer | Level 3
9 months ago

Ignoring a folder doesn't solve a concurrency problem in Windows, while pausing dropbox does

Hello,

 

I have a Flutter project in my Dropbox folder. I get an error C1090 building it to windows, this error is related to simultaneous access and the log shows it's on a file in the "build" subfolder. Most probably it's dropbox keeping the file blocked while it syncs it.

 

If I pause dropbox the error goes away, but it's not practical. I guessed having dropbox ignore the build folder would solve the problem but it doesn't. I still get the same error in the same file. 

Does dropbox still inspects files in ignored folders? Is there a way to stop this? Any other suggetion?

Tks,

Gustavo

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hi gustavoexel, thanks for messaging the Community.

     

    If a folder is ignored using this feature, the Dropbox desktop application still needs to monitor the folder itself, even if files inside it aren't being synced.

     

    If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

    • gustavoexel's avatar
      gustavoexel
      Explorer | Level 3

      Hello, thank you for your reply.

      I do have a further question: how do I solve this concurrency problem?

      For the record, I couldn't find a way to make Flutter output it's build files to a different drive. It can output to a different relative path, but this won't take me out of the files monitored by dropbox unless I shake up all my directory structure, which I'd like to avoid.

      • Jay's avatar
        Jay
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Currently, there isn't any solution that I can provide, since the file is in the Dropbox folder which is constantly monitored by the desktop app.

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