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How to force Editorial to sync every .md file in Dropbox
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In Details of how "Search in Dropbox" works, I asked:
Is there any way to get Editorial to sync every .md file in all Dropbox directories, regardless of whether they've already been synced - e.g. via Workflow, rather than having to visit them all manually, please? Do Workflows also only see already-synced content?
(I searched Editorial Workflows for download, sync and force)
I think this would be better as a topic in its own right, so I'm asking the question here.
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There's currently no way to force syncing of a folder via workflows/scripts, sorry.
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I've found that if I hit the
Sync
button at the bottom of the File view in Editorial 1.1:- the app updates the content of all already-download files, in all previously-visited sub-directories
- interestingly, it also downloads and newly created files in any of these previously-visited sub-directories
- I tested this by creating on my PC a new file in old old sub-dir, and adding some nonsense text to it, then syncing Editorial. When I then searched for that nonsense text in Editorial it found it, even though I hadn't explicitly visited that folder in Editorial since the addition
This is great - it means that by syncing the root Dropbox level, ~460 of my ~770 .md files are correctly being searched in Editorial.
Now I just have to work out how to load the remaining folders.
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Thanks.
For now, I'll just work through all my Dropbox folders in the Editorial browser, and get it to start syncing each folder.
This will be fine, as at least I know that the content will be updated by later syncs.