[Owncloud] Unable to sync following a system crash...

[Bradley D. Thornton]

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On 11/09/2012 11:36 AM, Klaas Freitag wrote:
> On 09.11.2012 20:28, Bradley D. Thornton wrote:
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>> Following an abrupt system crash (battery died) on a laptop, I was
>> unable to get my client to sync my directories with my ownCloud server.
>>
>> I got the error: "CSync failed to create a lock file".
>>
>> When binging that (Googling it, actually ;) ), most of the solutions
>> were to "rm ~/.csync/lock", but I don't have a .csync directory.

> Please check ~/.local/share/data/ownCloud if there is a file ocsync.lock
>  That can be savely removed.
> 
> That should fix it.

Thanks Klaas! The file was actually just plain old "lock", rather than
ocsync.lock. I whacked the file and there was no need to stop/restart
the sync client because it immediately started working after that :)

Kindest regards,


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Bradley D. Thornton
Manager Network Services
NorthTech Computer
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