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Double-clicking in Finder works fine. Using a standard file IO function like "fopen" in Matlab, or the "grep" command in terminal, does not work. If my GUI app uses a file dialog to let the user identify a file, and then use an IO function to access that filename, it does not work. General purpose IO streams return zero…
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That is how it used to work, but I can confirm that if I have a 20KB csv file that is "online only", it shows up as zero bytes in Finder. If I try to read that file in, say, Matlab, python, or terminal, I just get an error. If I right-click the file in finder, make it available offline, then Matlab and other apps can read…
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The bug isn't related to command-line access specifically. The bug is that apps (including terminal) cannot interact with files at all. Until recently, if any app (including terminal) tried to access a file in a folder set to "smart sync" or whatever it's called, dropbox would automatically download it if it wasn't already…
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Are you serious? That is going to mean hours of tediously navigating folders and manually clicking specific files. This is 100% a bug. Is the dropbox team working on fixing it?
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Well that sucks. Can I do it without individually clicking every file I need (and without making the entire root folder available offline)?
