Brad Wilson had a hard drive with bad blocks which when he tried to remove from Windows Home server displayed the following error message: Brad managed to rescue his using a copy of ROBOCOPY which is a part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit.
Conflicted Copy Resolver is a new online tool by the creators of Boxcryptor and Whisply that scans Dropbox storage for conflicts; resolving conflicts will free up space on Dropbox.
Conflicts may occur during the synchronization process or when multiple people edit files at the same time. If two users edit the same file at the same time, merge conflicts may occur as two different versions of the file exist at that point in time.
These conflicts may result in copies of files being created, and this may lead to duplicate files on Dropbox. These files take up storage space even though other copies may exist already on Dropbox's servers.
Deleting conflict files on Dropbox frees up disk space. This can be substantial if lots of conflicted copies are stored on Dropbox that are duplicates.
While you may delete these files manually, you may also use a free online service like Conflicted Copy Resolver for that.
Tip: You can identify file conflicts easily on Dropbox as Dropbox adds 'conflicted copy' to the file name of files that have been created because of file syncing conflicts.
Conflicted Copy Resolver
Conflicted Copy Resolver automates the scan, and it may also automate the removal of files that you identify as duplicates caused by copy conflicts.
File Conflicts
First thing that you need to do is allow the service to access your files on Dropbox. You don't need to supply the Dropbox credentials directly to the service, as it uses Dropbox's own authentication system for that.
Once you have authorized the service on Dropbox, it will scan the files of the account for conflicts. The company behind the service notes that it cannot access or read the files on Dropbox.
The number of conflicts are displayed after the scan. The service lists three options at this point to clean up the conflicts:
- Keep the newest copy.
- Keep the original copy.
- Manage files individualy.
The first two options are the fastest but give you little control over the process. It is usually better to select detail view to decide on a per-file basis. You may select to keep the original, newest or last modified by file for each file listed by the service.
Closing Words
Conflicted Copy Resolver is a handy service, but only for heavy Dropbox users who store files on Dropbox servers that multiple users work on regularly. Most home users are probably better off running a search on their local Dropbox storage to identify any file conflict by searching for 'conflict', and resolving any conflict that comes up this way.
I have copied thousands of files of all types into the shared folders on Windows Home Server and marked all of them as 'duplicate' (verb) and it appears to be doing well.
However, I have a small number (about 20) .TIF files and it is complaining about each of these files with the following message: 'The following files have a conflict. To learn how to resolve the conflict, click Help.' The Conflict marked on each file is 'The file is open'
These files are untouched and unopened by anything that I have been involved with. So I'm trying to track down why .TIF files are open by something and what that something is or if it's a bug in WHS and if so is there a workaround?
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3 Answers
Have you tried rebooting and seeing if that clears the lock? What about booting into Safe Mode and then doing what you need to do with those files?
Whs File Conflict Resolver
You can also use a tool like Process Explorer or Filemon from Sysinternals to check what processes are attached to those files.
romandasromandasIs it possible that Windows Explorer itself is somehow holding a handle to the file? Don't forget the file has to be opened, at least once, to generate the preview that is then stored in thumbs.db. If you are not saving the thumbs.db file then the file will have to be re-opened every time.
I suggest you to use unlocker to find out the problem.
Try to make some operation on a file (Rename or Delete). Then according to your information it should be denied and an error message will be popped up reporting a failure to delete/ rename.
Close the message and then a unlocker window will be popped up showing the 'Locker' process.
Then you can use Process Explorer or any similar tool if you want to see the process path, command line information.
Then you can remove check whether it is a startup process and will be able to consider it to disable it using msconfig.
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