[FIXED] Local file changes not being pushed to drive

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#1

Thanks in advance. Using latest Using up-to-date Ubuntu 16.04.

I’m using a trial license at the moment. After having freshly installed Insync and pulled down a copy of my Drive, I started working this morning.

I have been working on files in a particular directory all day, and the changes have yet to be pushed. Restarting Insync does nothing. It still claims to be synced.

The only thing that could be peculiar about my setup, is that I am working through symbolic links. Specifically, the real directory I am working on is a direct child of the Insync directory, call it, ~/Insync/Documents. My ~/Documents directory is a symbolic link pointing to ~/Insync/Documents. But, of course, when I edit files, I am going through the ~/Documents symlink. But I can’t imagine that being the problem.

Update: My suspicions against the symbolic links being the source of the problem, are confirmed. I created the exact same set-up on my desktop computer and it seems to work just fine.

#2

I tracked down the problem. It was the fault of the Atom text editor. It appears to cache some ‘project’ data in ~/.config/Atom. Even though I started atom from the command line, specifying the correct path, it had previously resolved symlinks and stored them, pointing to my old cloud drive.

I just deleted the ~/.config/Atom directory to clear the outdated cache. (That isn’t your configuration directory. DO NOT delete your ~/.atom directory, which contains your configuration files and plugins.)

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#5

Thanks for reporting this, I have also alerted our Linux engineer about your issue.