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ipadawan

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Original poster
Aug 29, 2019
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Dear everyone,

Since I updated to 10.15.5 and since this morning to .6, I have the following problem. Files of the same name appear in the same folder, always 2 copies. It seems that it doesn't happen with images; but with .rb, .txt, swift again more often. When I want to copy or merge a folder with another I almost always get the message that there is already a file that certainly did not exist. Copying will then be canceled, but some of the new files will remain. If I paste again I get the dialog to replace them, but it finds another file that exists but was not there before.

Others also have this problem?

It happens on an iMac and an MBP, both with an SSD from Samsung. I can't confirm yet if it doesn't happen on a third-party SSD that's also in the iMac.
The files are in a dropbox sub folder.

By the way, does anyone know a script that search inside the dropbox folder and finds and can remove all the same files that are in one and the same folder?

Thank you
 
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