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Dropbox uploads corrupting files? #333

Open fasterthanlime opened 8 years ago

fasterthanlime commented 8 years ago

(Unconfirmed)

Same length, different SHA-1: https://github.com/itchio/itch/issues/404

clivecrous commented 8 years ago

After all the testing I've done now, as reported in the issue linked to above by @fasterthanlime , I'm fairly certain something is going wrong with Dropbox uploads.

mrhelmut commented 8 years ago

I've already experienced some issues with dropbox doing strange things to executable files (e.g. bash scripts & binaries mostly). Zipping these files resolved this.

clivecrous commented 8 years ago

It's not dropbox itself that's the problem. If I download from a dropbox link (within the browser) all's good, but link that same file within itch.io's upload area and it breaks. The problem is itch.io's Dropbox upload tool.

mrhelmut commented 8 years ago

My bad!

fasterthanlime commented 8 years ago

The problem is itch.io's Dropbox upload tool.

At least that's what I too currently suspect, but always keep in mind itch.io tools are used by a lot of users doing a lot of uploads everyday, including dropbox ones, so if it was "broken for everyone", we'd swim in bug reports, not have just the one :)

clivecrous commented 8 years ago

@fasterthanlime indeed, however having downloaded from dropbox, separately from my account, and outside of my dropbox account and having that download work - add to that that presumably Dropbox has even more users doing even more uploads and app syncs ... itch.io is all that's left.