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Why do certain dot files keep disappearing? [message #1780372]

Sun, 21 January 2018 19:43

Andrew DeFaria

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Registered: September 2012

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I have one Eclipse Workspace with a number of projects in the workspace. Occasionally (actually pretty frequently lately) I am unable to do Open Project for some of the projects. Looking deeper I see that my .project file has disappeared. This happens only to some of my projects. Interestingly I believe only the projects that I have that I point into my ~/Dropbox folder. They're in there because I share the files with others through Dropbox but I still do development on them.

And this is not the only dot file that disappears. My .gitignore goes away and .pyproject goes away too. After this happened a few times I actually stored these files (.project, .gitignore and .pyproject) in the .git directory thinking they'd be safe there and if this happens again I could easily copy them back but they disappeared too!

Is this something Eclipse does or perhaps is it Dropbox who is deleting these files? I don't see why Dropbox would care.

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Re: Why do certain dot files keep disappearing? [message #1780375 is a reply to message #1780372]

Sun, 21 January 2018 21:26

Andrey Sotnikov

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Registered: October 2014

Junior Member

Are you using Windows, Mac or Linux? In Windows, to find out the culprit, you can right-click a folder, choose properties and in the security settings set an audit for a file deletion by Everyone. Then you can check the Event Viewer and you will see the name of the process that deleted the file.

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Re: Why do certain dot files keep disappearing? [message #1843565 is a reply to message #1780375]

Sat, 07 August 2021 02:39

Andrew DeFaria

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Registered: September 2012

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I use Linux

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Re: Why do certain dot files keep disappearing? [message #1843568 is a reply to message #1843565]

Sat, 07 August 2021 06:27

David Vavra

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Registered: October 2012

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How are you getting them into Dropbox?

If you are putting them in the Dropbox with cp that won't copy hidden files (those starting with '.')
Use rsync instead.
If you are dragging and dropping from a File Manager make sure hidden files are visible

[Updated on: Sat, 07 August 2021 07:17]

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