I’m trying out to mount my Dropbox but it doesn’t work as expected once mounted.
Everytime I change a file, a new copy of the file is appears in the Dropbox folder. The new file contains the changes and the orignal flie remains unchanaged.
When I mount Dropbox the copies of the file get a another name (.goutputstream…).
I also tested to mount GoogleDrive and I basically get the same behavior, but the copies of the file get the same name as the original.
I mount like this:
$ rclone mount DropboxME: /home/lennart/DropboxME --vfs-cache-mode writes -v
I edit the file, add some text, and save. I use text editor XED in my desktop environment.
When I save file Testfile I can see a new cache file is created, named like goutputstream-TWVXPZ. But in the mounted folder I still see the original version of Testfile.
In Google Drive (browser) I see two notifications:
You uploaded an item goutputstream-TWVXPZ
You renamed an item Testfile from goutputstream-TWVXPZ
And now there are there are two instances of file Testfile.
With Dropbox I think the behavior is basically the same, but Dropbox does not allow two files with the same name and therefore I get the error at rename.
Thanks for explaining that. I think the fix for the issue above will fix your issue too, so if you subscribe to that issue then you’ll get a notification when it is fixed.
Thank you very much. It works now.
I have tested to change, delete, rename files and create, delete, rename folders in my mounted dropbox. It has worked fine so far, just slower than working with local files. But I have one issue with creating a new file. I’ll post another question about that.
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