File content often stale on iOS with third-party providers

[amake]

1. Open a file stored in Dropbox or Google Drive
2. Close file and note that it is listed in the Recent Files list
3. Modify the file from elsewhere (e.g. on another machine) and confirm that the changes have synced to the provider
4. Reopen the file in Orgro from the Recent Files list

With Google Drive (and Dropbox, according to reports) the contents will often not be updated. With iCloud Drive the contents do seem to update consistently.

It seems you can force-update the data if you:

1. Find the file in the picker or the iOS Files app
2. Long-press it and choose Info from the popup context menu
3. Wait for the Information section to populate
4. Then pick the file

It is unknown if this is a bug or is intentional behavior.

[linguistgate]

Having similar problem with Dropbox. Not updating when I make changes. Have to delete file and download again to Recents.

[amake]

I've looked into this a bit, and it seems like either

1. that's just how Apple's files API works (Is it a bug? Is it intended behavior? Who knows!), or
2. the apps (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) are doing something wrong on their end

I couldn't find any way to force-update the data programmatically from Orgro. So I'm kind of at a dead end.

[linguistgate]

Thank you for looking into it. I'll try to find another way to bring files in besides Dropbox because I continue to like the program you've built.

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[thorbenandresen]

FWIW, here is my workaround to do a one-way sync from Dropbox to iCloud of my org-roam files

• It runs rsync for the one-way sync
• It only runs when the saved buffer is an org-mode buffer and within my org-roam-directory
• It also prints a log to my desktop

(defun my/sync-roam-to-icloud ()
  (when (and (eq major-mode 'org-mode) (string= org-roam-directory (file-name-directory buffer-file-name)))
    (shell-command (concat "rsync -a " org-roam-directory " "
                           (shell-quote-argument  "/Users/<username>/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/@docs/roam/" )
                           " --log-file=$HOME/Desktop/roam-rsync.log"
                           ))
    ))

(add-hook 'after-save-hook #' my/sync-roam-to-icloud)

I do this because I really would like to keep Dropbox as my main sync engine (mainly because of Dropbox's version history feature) but I would still like to see the latest versions of my files in orgo

[amake]

I think I've figured this out. I tested with Google Drive and this seemed to do the trick: hpoul/file_picker_writable#17

[amake]

This will be fixed in v1.18.0, which will be available for testing soon:

• Android
• iOS

[amake]

v1.18.0 is now available for testing on Test Flight and Google Play.

[amake]

v1.18.1 has been released.