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Originally Posted by skb
Also, don't have Dropbox running (that is, pause it) while you're working on the copy. Once the copying is done and all the copies of the files are in DB, then un-pause and let it sync.
Long story short: don't work on files in DB while DB is running (that is, syncing).
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I have never needed to do that.
Dropbox is well written. Is should have no problems syncing folder a while you are doing other stuff in folder b.
And anyway, it's a Copy!, anything that goes wrong should be fixed on the next copy.
And it is a 2 stage copy. The user does stage 1 which is a windows copy into a local Dropbox folder on the same pc, then the Dropbox software manages syncing that local file to the Dropbox server. The latter is extremely reliable. If it wasn't they would have gone out of business long ago.
I mirror other stuff to Dropbox regularly, e.g.my entire emails folder and dont pause Anything while that is syncing in background
And with free file sync , I am pretty sure that places temporary locks on files while it is copying them,.
I don't try to use calibre while it is scanning to update a sync