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I'm using dropbox across several machines - two macs, two linux machines.
All are working happily - except for one mac, where there are 4 files that persistently refuse to update.
In finder, these 4 files have a red X icon. The dropbox menu is stuck on 'syncing' (and has been for about a week now), and has part of an error message saying that it can't write to these files.
In Finder's "Get Info", it says I have read+write access; at the commandline, ls shows that they have -rwxrwxrwx permissions.
What kind of files are they? Can you execute them without Finder asking the "are you sure?" question, like when you download something from the internet and it warns you first. – Marcin – 2010-01-14T01:03:03.980
Does quitting and relaunching Dropbox help? That was all it took when mine was stuck on "syncing" a while back. If you search your logs for dropbox do you get any useful hits? – ridogi – 2010-01-14T01:17:22.217
@marcin: they're documents. Didn't try to execute them (but it would have been fruitless, they're not executables - I don't know why the x bits were set) – James Polley – 2010-01-14T01:40:41.547
@ridogi Relaunching dropbox didn't help, rebooting didn't help. Logs don't show anything useful. – James Polley – 2010-01-14T01:41:14.417
("didn't" rather than "doesn't" because I've already solved this, but my solution was esoteric; I'm hoping that someone else can come up with a better answer, but if not I'll just have to answer my own question so that the solution is at least documented) – James Polley – 2010-01-14T01:50:37.073