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Unnecessary sync after change auf harddisk on the app.
Hello,
I just changed my data harddisk. It's a Linux system and I just moved the /home directory to a new harddisk. The system runs fine, but Dropbox does not recognise that the cloud storage a...
elroy690 wrote:...
When I let the whole sync process run through, everything will be back to normal afterwards?
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Yes. As I said, the application uploads everything anew. This doesn't mean that every file will be updated; Dropbox server, on its own, checks out and if nothing changed (the file is the same) upload is ignored. So, almost everything, if not everything, gonna be ignored. At the end, for every single file, correct extended attribute(s) (one or more; one in most cases) becomes set to every single file anew and that's all.
Hi elroy690,
Yes, you have done mounting in the proper way. 😉
elroy690 wrote:... I copied the whole content with rsync, which is a standard linux tool and should work fine. I don't think the rsync command changes anything. Do you?
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😁 Yes rsync is useful tool, but the "evil" is in details! How exactly you ran rsync? Yes, rsync support extended attributes, but such feature is NOT active if no explicitly turn on. So if you haven't done it, that's why your Dropbox application got in confusion (by default rsync drops extended attributes). 🙋
Next time take care. 😉
Ok, thanks for clarifying!
When I let the whole sync process run through, everything will be back to normal afterwards?
Thanks.
elroy690 wrote:...
When I let the whole sync process run through, everything will be back to normal afterwards?
...
Yes. As I said, the application uploads everything anew. This doesn't mean that every file will be updated; Dropbox server, on its own, checks out and if nothing changed (the file is the same) upload is ignored. So, almost everything, if not everything, gonna be ignored. At the end, for every single file, correct extended attribute(s) (one or more; one in most cases) becomes set to every single file anew and that's all.
- Great, thanks a lot!
