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sfwrtr
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago

Sync results under "Your Activity" show yesterday's synced files not today's.

I can see syncing occurring with the dropbox notification icon on the Mac. When I look, syncing runs. When it completes, instead of showing what was just synced, it only shows files synced the previo...
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Jay
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9 months ago

Hi sfwrtr, just for clarification, is this only when files are updated via the mobile devices, or from the website as well?

Could you try updating a file directly on the Dropbox site, and then see if this shows up on the 'Today' list?

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sfwrtr
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago

I never use the Dropbox website. I'll try something. Okay, created a file. Yes, it shows in the Today list. See image.

The problem occurs when 1) A iPhone or iPad app (e.g. Scrivener) updates the DB cloud. 2) I wake the Mac. 3) DB syncs from the cloud. The result is that Today is shown as a header, but no files are shown as in the image.  

RE: The image. The other files besides the Requested file were updated on the Mac.

  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
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    9 months ago

    Hi sfwrtr!

    Interesting find. When did you first notice this behavior?

    Since it's been a while since you last tried uninstalling the app, do you think you can give it a go?

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      sfwrtr
      Explorer | Level 4
      9 months ago

      I trashed Dropbox app and downloaded a new package, then installed it. It is the same build as I mentioned above. No change in behavior.  I updated files using an app on the iPhone, and here's the result. Pictures are worth a 1,000 words. Note the date and time. Looks like a bug to me.

       

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        sfwrtr
        Explorer | Level 4
        9 months ago

        I found something interesting. Though I know nothing of your internals (I am a retired developer and tech support person), I noticed there are two columns in this directory display on the Dropbox site. Note that Activity has "Edited" dates that correlate to what is displayed under the Today and Yesterday columns. However, the Modified column is the actual time that the files were uploaded to dropbox. I added an arrow to point to Recents.txt which shows up under Today.

        Is the code using the wrong flags to display the Today and Yesterday columns? To be precise, I did subsequently update on mobile after I finished my last reply above. This is why the files updating in the first image aren't the same as shown in the directory listing. Those were deleted in deference to the ones in the directory, which were downloaded (synced) to the Mac, but not displayed under Today.

        This should be reproducible at this point by your developers.

         

         

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