vvengine, dropbox and busy messages

Steviebone · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 42

I have been having issues with alot of vvengine busy messages, unable to connect, etc. I have traced one of the problems to dropbox. I notice that whenever I start dropbox for example the vvengine starts giving me the unable to connect messages... as soon as I kill dropbox the server becomes available.

I have suspected for a while that perhaps their is a conflict of some sort with the file monitoring but even with all file monitoring in vv turned off the issue persists. It also seems that at times, even after dropbox startup and initialization it 'fights' with vv.

This may well be a problem with dropbox... my opinion of dropbox has diminished for other reasons anyway... I'm considering it's pink slip... do you have any known issues concerning dropbox/vv?

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8758

Interesting. Do you have profiles working on dropbox folders and/or mapped drives? Maybe are those the profiles that are conflicting with Dropbox? Soon ViceVersa will be supporting Amazon S3 storage, which I think it's a much more robust solution.
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Guest · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:05 pm Post subject:

yes, although it doesn't seem to matter whether or not those profiles are running at the time... I think it is more likely that there are file monitoring conflicts or perhaps dropbox is locking access or something

crashplan is more robust than dropbox.. I keep dropbox only for redundancy but it is outdated and overpriced IMO... restore is almost useless for anything but a handful of files... it does not handle large volumes of data well at all