Conflict files abound after removing then adding same directory about client HOT 10 CLOSED

This (or a pretty similar) issue has been reported and discussed numerous times on the community forum already (http://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2223, http://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2552, http://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3265, http://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4582).
Also, there is an open issue on the old bugtracker (http://bugs.owncloud.org/thebuggenie/owncloud/issues/oc-1172)

It isn't only happening in this special situation described above - from the bug description I gather that it happens as soon as you have a sufficiently large shared directory.

This seems to be a very serious issue - is it being worked on? Such an issue is definitely a showstopper.

I can very well understand the guy from the last mentioned forum thread saying that this could be a reason for them stopping owncloud implementation in their company...

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Yes, and it should have been dealt with in 1.1.1. I am currently trying to reproduce it.

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Sorry, last comment (now removed) ended up in the wrong place, please ignore.

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Just tried to reproduce with 1.1.1.
After the steps mentioned by danimo, i have indeed a conflict file, but only on the ownCloud server, not on the synced client dir. Don't know if that's intended behaviour...

It's not corrupt however, but that could be another issue.

Btw, this was with 4 jpgs in a folder.

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Also got conflict files after installing 1.1.1, where there definitely was no conflict at all - server and client had exactly the same version - but the file was opened on client side, maybe this can cause the conflicts? Thankfully, after deleting the conflict files on the client, they also went away on the server (as it should be); with client 1.0.3 it only worked when conflict files were deleted on the server, on client they would just reappear...

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In my current testing, I have Admin who shares a folder with two users. All running the latest software server is on 4.5.1a and clients on 1.1.1.

Admin shares the folder with 5 sub folders all with some files in them 111MB in total.
On the Server there are no conflicts
Admin has no conflicts
User 1 has no conflicts (Mac client)
User 2 has conflicts in 2 out of 5 folders (one folder has two files, both duplicated, the other one 94 files all duplicated)
User 2 logs in to the browser and there are no conflict files.
It has to be a bug in the sync client on User 2's machine (Windows client)

The files are exact copies of each other same in size.

Any workarounds how to prevent this

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I was able to reproduce the issue on 1.1.1 originally reported by @MTRichards in producing a ton of _conflict files by deleting the sync in the OwnCloud client, then re-creating it on the same folders. The _conflict files and the originals are all exactly the same.

@danimo Were you able to re-create this? Is there any debugging information we can give you that might help?

Luckily I'm still in testing mode with OwnCloud and don't have very many files synced, but if I did, effectively doubling the amount of storage used could be very bad. Not to mention the pain of having to go through them and delete all the conflict files.

I'm wondering if the root cause of this could be related to Issue #59.

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This bug appears resolved in ownCloud 1.2.0 pre, Dec 11 version.

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I'm on 1.1.3 and the issue seems to be fixed.

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Thanks for verification.

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