Unknown Chinese Files Synced to Dropbox

[Alan Smith]

I'm curious is anyone else has noticed a strange occurrence when synching files to Dropbox. From time to time, when I log into Dropbox and check the Accordance files there, I discover oddly named files that do not match anything on my device. For example, I recently discovered a file titled 㔮昶瑖灸Kaces.apref (16.2 KB, Modified 12/20/2022). This file was in my Accordance Preferences folder (Dropbox/Apps/Accordance/Accordance Preferences). I have searched throughout my laptop drives and no file with that name appears. I did a translation of the Chinese text and the online translator returns "Translate: Moxibustion," which is apparently a form of therapy that entails the burning of mugwort leaves. Obviously not an accordance preference. Any guesses what that may be?

[Misulejoha]

Νο idea but that is really weird for sure.

[Dr. Nathan Parker]

Anyway you can reach out to Dropbox support on this? Wonder if they’re doing anything wonky.

[Alan Smith]

I've posted a similar question in the Dropbox community to solicit ideas. Perhaps someone else has encountered a similar event.

[rcdeacon]

I have had a similar situation. It was 3 or 4 Chinese files added duringDropbox sync. I have never fully resolved it.

 

Bob

[dmwebb6]

It happens to me when syncing to Dropbox and has for a long time. When I contacted tech support,  I was told that they were aware but had no idea why.  Looking forward to a better sync system. Hopefully soon.

[rcdeacon]

7 minutes ago, dmwebb6 said:

It happens to me when syncing to Dropbox and has for a long time. When I contacted tech support,  I was told that they were aware but had no idea why.  Looking forward to a better sync system. Hopefully soon.

Agreed!

 

Bob

[Dr. Nathan Parker]

Looking forward to it as well!

[Alan Smith]

It's good to see that some others experience the same issue. I have submitted a copy of the file to Norton to (hopefully) get an analysis and see if it is malicious. I reviewed the file from a non-executable status and saw that it mostly contained information about the various resources in my program. It looks like something that Accordance is creating, perhaps temporarily. Though it makes little sense. It makes even less sense that Accordance would create a file with Chinese characters in the filename.

 

 

Text in the file:

 

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㔮昶瑖灸Kaces.apref.txt

[Steven S]

36 minutes ago, Alan Smith said:

It makes even less sense that Accordance would create a file with Chinese characters in the filename.

 

This is just a guess, but it may be a character encoding/decoding issue with respect to the file names. I don't know whether it's more likely the defect is in Accordance or Dropbox, but I did report a similar problem with how search strings stored in a workspace file are encoded/decoded by Accordance between UTF-8 and Mac OS Roman.

[Mutien Chen]

There is no meaning of 㔮昶瑖灸 in Chinese. Even these four characters are seldom be used except the last one. I think the problem maybe like what Steven guessed above. The similar situation happened in some other word editing apps when you delete "half" of the Chinese characters and the rest texts would become disorder like that.