Hidden file or directory starting with "."

[alanzchen]

DropboxSync.py cannot handle these cases correctly. When encounter a hidden file or directory, it will raise OSError: no such file or directory.

if not os.path.exists(local_folder):
        os.mkdir(local_folder)

Maybe iOS does not allow app to create a hidden file or directory inside the container? Can we simply skip these files and directories?

[tildebyte]

I ran into this in a traceback in a code repo. AFAICT, this happens when paths go too deep, e.g. {pythonista root}/Code/foo1/foo2/foo3/ERROR ERROR doesn't get synced and throws the traceback.

--EDIT-- Even worse, the files in foo3 don't sync, but there's no error.

[alanzchen]

Is it simply a matter of depth?

[dhutchison]

Can you post a full directory listing?

I've done some pretty deep folder layouts in testing and I'd be surprised if it was that.

[tildebyte]

Sanitizing the directory names would be a lot of work, but suffice to say that all of the file/folder names for this particular tree are plain ASCII and well within 32 characters (probably less than 15). The only dot files which I know of would be the .git dirs, and I've not seen any errors relating to them, although it's also the case that they're not syncing.

[glitchassassin]

os.mkdir() isn't recursive, so if it tries to create a folder inside a folder which doesn't yet exist, it'll throw that error.

Try using os.makedirs() instead to create all directories in the specified path as needed.

[dhutchison]

@cdiscrete since you are (presumably) able to reproduce the issue, can you try the suggestion by @glitchassassin to see if that works?