Dropbox and inotifywait

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I have the following script:

#!/bin/sh
while inotifywait -e modify -e create -e delete /home/me/Dropbox/text; do
    touch testscriptworked
done

With the script running, when I make changes to the actual text directory in Dropbox, inotifywait picks it up. But if I use a text editor on my iPad linked to that Dropbox folder, inotifywait never picks it up.

I'm pretty new to this so anything will help. Thanks.

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shelldropboxinotify

1 Answers

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its because alot of mobile apps ive seen, by just randomly watching inotifywait verbose, arent triggering create events when something is created.

the event you wanna watch for is ATTRIB.