Automatically Deleting Files Edited on Windows

[LamFTS]

Dear @bpozdena, I've using OneDriveGUI for a while and it provide me with excellent experiencing, however, I am facing one severe problem that once files edited on Windows, they have the probability to be deleted automatically on Linux when synchronizing, and the problem occurs occasionally, which really raise threat to my data. I put a issue on abraunegg/onedrive, but abraunegg point out that that problem might come from my operating system or the OneDriveGUI, I don't really know what causes this tricky problem. My operating system, some log information and the explanation from abraunegg is here: Bug: Files edited on Windows were deleted automatically, I hope I can seek some help from here. Sorry to bother. : (

[bpozdena]

Hi @LamFTS , I can't see any obvious reason why the GUI should in any case affect your files. To confirm, just close OneDriveGUI and run the sync from your terminal. You will most likely see the same behavior.

You can run the sync with the bellow command:

onedrive --confdir='/home/lamfts/.config/onedrive/accounts/lamfts/' --monitor -vv

The -vv option might show some more details, but I personally would not understand it.

What Abrownegg was trying to explain to you is that when OneDrive client downloads the file from the cloud, it immediately seems to disappear from your filesystem. From my experience this mostly happens with temp/shadow files etc. that are created just for a few milliseconds.

I can only give you some wild guesses you might want to check:

• It could maybe happen if you have the same document opened on your Linux and on Windows at the same time?
• Or perhaps there is some other process moving the files elsewhere (antivirus, rsync, some script, etc..) .
• Corrupted filesystem - maybe fsck can help.
• Translator tells me that 临时文件 means Temporary Files. Not sure if that has any implication on your system.
• Also maybe check if this only happens with non-english directory file/directory names. Maybe some character encoding difference between Linux and Windows could cause issues during the file renaming from .partial?