Rewriting the heart of our sync engine

Re:Rewriting the heart of our sync engine by CodeWriter23 on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:53AM (#22602993)

I have a question, is hooking filesystem write notifications on macOS hard? As soon as I paid for the Plus Plan, I started having to wait several minutes for a file to upload. Even from one computer to the other with LAN Sync enabled. The day before that, my files would sync faster than I could hit refresh in the browser I was developing in.

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Re:Rewriting the heart of our sync engine by sujayakar on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:24PM (#22607400)

for mac it's FSEveents: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/file_....

> As soon as I paid for the Plus Plan, I started having to wait several minutes for a file to upload. Even from one computer to the other with LAN Sync enabled. The day before that, my files would sync faster than I could hit refresh in the browser I was developing in.

that definitely seems like a bug, could you report it? click on the dropbox tray, click on the dropdown in the top right, and then click "Report Bug." this will collect some information about your client to help us debug.

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Re:Rewriting the heart of our sync engine by saagarjha on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:52PM (#22607820)

I'm curious if Dropbox could replace their kernel extension and FSEvents usage with an EndpointSecurity client. Would you happen to know if there's any work being done in this area?

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Re:Rewriting the heart of our sync engine by saagarjha on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:36PM (#22606729)

There’s API for it, which I’m sure the Dropbox team is aware of. There’s probably another reason why it didn’t sync immediately.

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