Build fails on Dropbox network drive

can this be caused that I am saaving and creating unity project on mapped drive?
I have R: drive and its dropbox shared folder
but one of my last projects was at this drive, and it worked.
I was testing exactly same workflow, once saved at C: and secondly saved on R: and project saved on my C: is working without problems

by user 869976161550217286

Yes, that would be the root cause.
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I wonder why you didn’t get a warning though since we do check for the availability of symlinks on the project drive.

Changed the channel name: Build fails on Dropbox network drive

I think this is different issue where a drive is mapped - not a drive without symlink support

Dropbox / Google Drive are kind of ā€œvirtual network drivesā€, I thought they didn’t have symlink support either but maybe they do. We should probably exclude both, it’s not a good idea to have projects with many files on them - and as far as I’m aware there’s no .gitignore or similar for them either

I am baffled by the environments people try to use for dev like this :joy: if there are any tutorial makers out there encouraging this I will go tell them off personally

by user 103054507105067008

Well, I know firsthand how hard it is to get people to unlearn ā€œput the project where my files sync between machinesā€ and learn ā€œthe mystical source control that is gitā€ā€¦

Some never learn that :smiling_face_with_tear:

I think it would be good if at some point we have some docs for it! It looks like a steep learning curve.