Hello, I am using the original ODrive client on Windows 10 64 bit. I have a folder with lots of files, such as .gitignore, .env, .editorconfig… and in the last month or so, Odrive has been renaming these files to be without the ., uploading the files without the ., deleting the files on my computer, and sinking the files to be .cloud. This has really hampered my usage with Odrive, as it used to be that I would only stop Odrive while I was developing, now I stop it while I’m developing and before I have pushed new changes to my remote repository, then I run Odrive, wait for it to update the remote repository, I delete the trash, then turn off Odrive, and reset all changes in my repositories back to what they were before Odrive went in and removed the files. These are just the repositories I’m frequently working in, I have hundreds of other repositories I have sinked, and I’m extremely worried they have also had their files renamed. How do I stop this renaming? I have looked on my re…

Hi @brandonkeithbiggs , Sorry about this. The period substitution was fixed in this release, but we haven’t been able to push it out to the autoupdater yet: [image] Desktop Release (09-22-2020) Win v.6714 / Mac v.6813 Release Notes Hi again, We have a quick release today with some bug fixes and minor improvements. Win v.6714 / Mac v.6813 Fix for illegal character handling issue on Windows (remove leading period substitution). This resolves the issue reported in this forum thread . Low disk space OS notification for main odrive and sync-to-odrive folders. Handling for Program files outside of C: Enable login to desktop using CLI auth key. See authenticate command documentation . Amazon Drive rate limit handling small impr…

Odrive is renaming and Deleting Folders and files that start with a Period

Troubleshooting

Tony October 4, 2020, 3:08pm 3

Hi @brandonkeithbiggs,
Sorry about this. The period substitution was fixed in this release, but we haven’t been able to push it out to the autoupdater yet: