samschott
commented
6 months ago Have you selected the entire top-level volume as a local dropbox folder to sync? I seem to recall that the .Spotlight-V100 folder is (a) at the top-level of a volume and (b) only accessible with root permissions. The latter explains your permission error.
To mitigate, you could either create a folder inside the volume and sync that folder, or tell Maestral to ignore local .Spotlight-V100 folders by adding them to an .mignore file (see https://maestral.app/docs/mignore).
From the Maestral side, it would make sense to ignore some system files and folders by default. This is already done with .DS_Store files for example.
fabiovin70
Describe the bug When syncing to an external 8TB drive, it stops syncing stating that "Path: /Volumes/Projects/.Spotlight-V100 Insufficient read or write permissions for this location." The dropbox drive itself is around 7.3TB, but I am selectively syncing around 1TB.
Expected behaviour Syncing the entire drive without issue.
System:
Additional context Here is the section of the log file that details where it went wrong -
2024-05-03 08:23:48 sync INFO: Indexing 119840... 2024-05-03 08:23:48 sync INFO: Up to date 2024-05-03 08:23:48 sync INFO: Indexing local changes... 2024-05-03 08:23:48 manager ERROR: Could not sync file or folder Traceback (most recent call last): File "app_packages/maestral/sync.py", line 1700, in upload_local_changes_while_inactive File "app_packages/maestral/sync.py", line 1747, in _get_local_changes_while_inactive File "app_packages/maestral/utils/path.py", line 436, in walk File "app_packages/maestral/utils/path.py", line 428, in walk File "app_packages/maestral/sync.py", line 3814, in _scandir_with_ignore PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/Volumes/Projects/.Spotlight-V100'
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "app_packages/maestral/manager.py", line 767, in _handle_sync_thread_errors File "app_packages/maestral/manager.py", line 753, in startup_worker File "app_packages/maestral/sync.py", line 1705, in upload_local_changes_while_inactive maestral.exceptions.InsufficientPermissionsError: Could not sync file or folder. Insufficient read or write permissions for this location. 2024-05-03 08:23:48 manager INFO: Shutting down threads... 2024-05-03 08:23:48 sync INFO: Sync aborted 2024-05-03 08:23:48 manager INFO: Paused
The permissions of the drive are set to allow everyone to read and write so I'm not sure how else to deal with the permissions issue. The dropbox client is currently also installed and running on the computer, but even after quitting the dropbox client the issue still persists.