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Originally Posted by dwanthny
If you shutdown Computer-A before the 6 meg file can uploaded to Dropbox, when you go to Computer-B you will find the work you did on Computer-A missing. The updated metadata.db file still exists on you Computer-A but because it never had a chance to update Dropbox it is not available to Computer-B.
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Don't do any work on
Computer-B at this point. If you do, you get a third copy of metadata.db. The first copy is what was done on both machines before the conflict. The second is what was done on both plus what was done only on
Computer-A, but not yet known to
Computer-B. The third is like the second, but includes what was done only on
Computer-B, but not yet known to
Computer-A.
Recovery from this is possible, but tricky. There will be no metadata.db file that is correct, and no way for dropbox to help. There will be no file yet available that has what is needed. You will need to run one of the last two metadata files, export the stuff known only to one machine, then run the other metadata and import the stuff you exported.