Jürgen, no, Dropbox does not allow for file extension exclusion. Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:01 PM <jcredbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Jurgen. I will try to check if this is possible. Nevertheless, > this is the first time it happens to me and I mostly work with Lyx. > > Regards, > Julio Rojas > jcredbe...@gmail.com > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:35 AM Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2020, 12:27 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: >> > The file #DCHT_2020_v5.lyx# looks like some kind of lockfile or >> > tracking file that Dropbox writes (maybe hidden), though that's only >> > a guess. >> >> Hm, to me, this rather looks like a LyX autosave file (as generated >> by Buffer::getAutosaveFileName()). >> >> Maybe LyX attempts to remove or move that (e.g., >> Buffer::moveAutosaveFile() is called by Buffer::saveAs()) and Dropbox >> does not appreciate that. >> >> I don't know if you can specify file patterns to ignore from Dropbox >> syncing (as you can with nextcloud), but if so, the easisest solution >> would probably be to exclude *.lyx# files from syncing. >> >> Jürgen >> -- >> lyx-users mailing list >> lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >> http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users >> >
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