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jglazer63's avatar
Nov 15, 2020

The Dropbox app thumbs.db errors

The dropbox log file has thousands upon thousands of errors such as this:

 

Nov 15 11:52:24 NAS ng-csd[19128]: Encountered DropboxError: disallowed_name
Nov 15 11:52:24 NAS ng-csd[19128]: E1115 11:52:24.733392 19131 DropboxErrorMarshaller.cpp:135] Encountered DropboxError: disallowed_name
Nov 15 11:52:24 NAS ng-csd[19128]: E1115 11:52:24.733503 19131 DropboxFS.cpp:599] Failed to upload file. localPath = /Adconn/Purchases/Scrabble/Thumbs.db, remotePath = /Purchases/Scrabble/Thumbs.db
Nov 15 11:52:24 NAS ng-csd[19128]: E1115 11:52:24.733532 19131 SyncUpsyncFile.cpp:400] Failed to upload file. local file = /Adconn/Purchases/Scrabble/Thumbs.db, remote file = /Purchases/Scrabble/Thumbs.db. HTTP_TRANSPORT_ERROR: path/disallowed_name/
Nov 15 11:52:24 NAS ng-csd[19128]: Failed to upload file. localPath = /Adconn/Purchases/Scrabble/Thumbs.db, remotePath = /Purchases/Scrabble/Thumbs.db
Nov 15 11:52:24 NAS ng-csd[19128]: Failed to upload file. local file = /Adconn/Purchases/Scrabble/Thumbs.db, remote file = /Purchases/Scrabble/Thumbs.db. HTTP_TRANSPORT_ERROR: path/disallowed_name/

 

How can I tell ReadyNas to exclude thumbs.db when syncing?  It has GOT to slow things down substantially.

 

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