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"Go to file" link in sync issue dialog doesn't work
(Win10) I've been having this issue for a month. It pops up every day.
I don't see any problem with the filename, it doesn't contain any special characters, and I don't know which file i...
Hi Quuzuu,
Your "favicon.png" files count isn't so big. So should not be a big task to compare local and online equivalents. While keep open the local search results, try the same with search bar in web interface of your account. Is there some more additional file(s) or time stamp of matching results differs? 🤔
Hope this gives direction.
1. As I mentioned, nothing happens when I click "Go to file", and I do not know which file it's talking about.
2. Below is all the files with this name in my local dropbox folder, ordered by date modified. You can see there were no recently changed ones. And you can also see the semi recent ones are all located inside node_modules, which I have all ignored from syncing.
3. I tried to move out and move back these files as suggested, but it doesn't make the error go away. You probably know, the error message appears as a red exclamation mark in the system tray, and it's not designed to disappear until you view it, so it's not a good indicator of whether the issues was fixed or not. After you view it, however, it'll always go away, even without fix, until it comes back the next day.
4. As the error stated, it's "couldn't download", not "couldn't upload", so it's probably not going to be fixed by local operations anyway.
Hi Quuzuu,
Your "favicon.png" files count isn't so big. So should not be a big task to compare local and online equivalents. While keep open the local search results, try the same with search bar in web interface of your account. Is there some more additional file(s) or time stamp of matching results differs? 🤔
Hope this gives direction.
Thanks Здравко , I took your advice and compared the online and local files one by one, and was indeed able to find a "favicon.png" online, which was 0 bytes. Deleting it solved the issue.
There are 3 things that the developers could be fixing related to this problem (2 bugs and 1 improvements):
1. clicking the "Go to file" button should work.
2. the error message shouldn't say "incompatible character", because there's none
3. the error message should display a full path of the file, not just the filename.
I fully agree with to your suggestions, Quuzuu! 😉 Let's hope some developer will get impressed... 😁 But you shouldn't rely too much... such thing is very unusual... 🤷 ... unfortunately.
Not that unusual, I have exactly the same problem. and a whole lotta files to go through. it's a constant nag and I have to check it every time to see if some new file I really need is stuck in there.
