I do a sync from some of my NAS folders to my GD using inSync and the weirdest thing is that it has created the folder twice with exactly the same name! It hasn’t happened on every folder, just a few.
It’s also created a folder called PICS to a duplicate folder called PICS (2) which doesn’t exist at all on the NAS.
It’s making it very confusing and I’m now scared to delete any of the folders on GD.
How on earth has that happened?
I do have inSync running on a desktop at home and my work laptop, but they are supposed to be syncing different folders. I notice now that my laptop is trying to sync my NAS folders too which I didn’t enable. How has that happened?
@cateyed: Please also include the compressed copy of the dbs folder (present next to the logs file) and tell us the names/paths of problematic files/folders so that we could analyze and tell you what caused it.
Same problem on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine, running insync-1.3.9.36089 and insync-nautilus-1.3.8.36087.
Some files get “versioned” with brackets, e.g., myfile.txt, myfile (1).txt, myfile (2).txt, etc… with the latest version of the file having the max number.
These files with brackets also appear online on the google drive, except for the last version of the file (the one with the max number), which appear with the same name as the original file (i.e. I see to lines with the same filename but different modification dates and file sizes).
This is very annoying, because collaborators also get this mess of files which then become “normal” files that are synced across hosts. Overall it basically prevent from working (my scripts use outdated files) and use disk space.
Is it possible that Insync does not handle correctly Google drive’s versionning system (it keeps versions for 30 days)?
I have the exact same issue on OneDrive… some folders and files from synology multiplicated with (1), (1)(1), 1 1 1 etc… Messed up my business account.
Well, it’s rather strange, I moved files into folder in OneDrive folder, then enabled InSync (onedrive business), it works normally for few days, then it go crazy, pick some random folder and start to double it or files inside of it (especially pdf and jpg files), creating 1, 1 1, 1 1 1 files etc.
Oh and it also randomly delete my files, from time to time I found it delete file from folder I do not acces at all. I have to restore it then.
I have setup to ask what to do every time if there’s a mismatch between cloud and local.
Sorry, but that’s totally unreliable experience.
Ubuntu 20.04.2 in KDE NEON variant.