The file cannot be accessed by the system (NOT SHARED FOLDER)

[chebarbudo]

Hi

I have a task that saves a user home directory (C:\Users\XXX).
It includes folders like "C:\Users\XXX\Documents", "C:\Users\XXX\Desktop", etc that just work fine.
It also includes the folder "C:\Users\XXX\Dropbox" which always fails with errors like :

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Error uploading the file "xxx": Cannot open file "xxx". The file cannot be accessed by the system.

The system CAN read the files. I've even forced the following command :

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icacls "C:\Users\XXX\Dropbox" /grant SYSTEM:F /T /Q

The administrator CAN read the files but it still fails if I run the task as admin.
The user itself CAN obviously read the files but it still fails if I run the task as him.

> No file outside Dropbox fails permanently
> 82,397 files in Dropbox fail to be accessed
> 8 files were successfully accessed.

What's wrong with Dropbox permissions?

Thanks for your help.
Santiago

[cobian]

Surely not a permissions issue but perhaps the file is offline (at the cloud only).

[chebarbudo]

Hi
Thanks Luis for your answer. Although I think Dropbox stores the files locally so how could they be offline? Do you think of a workaround for such an issue?
Regards
Santiago

[cobian]

I don't really know how Dropbox works but if it works like OneDrive or Google Folder, then the files are only online and what you see in the file system is a placeholder (which you can make offline if you want).