Can the Dropbox folder be placed in EagleFiler?

[Michael_Tsai]

@mrp

I see that the Dropbox synced flag has gone to its blue circulating arrows state.
Is EagleFiler modifying the files as it imports them? I hope this won’t make some kind of infinite feedback loop! Is this normal?

EagleFiler does not modify the files that it imports. The blue Dropbox arrows could be due to two factors:

1. EagleFiler assigns newly imported files the “unread” tag, and it will write this to the extended attributes (xattrs) of the file for compatibility with OpenMeta applications. So Dropbox will notice that each file has changed, but it’s only the metadata, not the file itself. It’s smart about not uploading data that hasn’t actually changed.
2. In each folder, EagleFiler saves a backup of the metadata and the checksums (for integrity checking) of the files in that folder. This takes the form of an XML file called “EagleFiler Metadata.plist”. Dropbox will detect and upload these new files.