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Catalog Backup Files are Permanently Marked Temporary
At least on Windows 10, the catalog backups created by Lightroom are left permanently marked as "temporary" in the filesystem: PS D:\Amazon Drive\Lightroom Catalogs> Get-ChildItem . -recurse | where {$_.attributes -match "temporary"} | ft fullname,lastwritetime,attributes -autosizeWhile I'm not aware of any issue this causes for Lightroom itself, it does cause Amazon Drive to deem the file temporary (because it is) and skip the sync that would otherwise occur:
FullName LastWriteTime Attributes
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D:\Amazon Drive\Lightroom Catalogs\2017-03-03 2258\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat.zip 3/3/2017 10:59:05 PM Archive, Temporary
D:\Amazon Drive\Lightroom Catalogs\2017-03-04 1358\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat.zip 3/4/2017 1:58:23 PM Archive, Temporary
D:\Amazon Drive\Lightroom Catalogs\2017-03-04 1618\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat.zip 3/4/2017 4:19:09 PM Archive, Temporary
D:\Amazon Drive\Lightroom Catalogs\2017-03-17 1942\Lightroom-Catalog.zip 3/17/2017 7:42:43 PM Archive, Temporary
D:\Amazon Drive\Lightroom Catalogs\2017-03-18 1042\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat.zip 3/18/2017 10:43:10 AM Archive, Temporary
[2017-03-18 10:52:49.387 -05:00 Info] [FileFilter] ignoring temporary file "D:\Amazon Drive\Lightroom Catalogs\2017-03-18 1042\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat.zip"The behavior exhibited by Amazon Drive is definitely reasonable, and is not exclusive to it. I'm sure plenty of backup services will ignore temporary files since a file marked this way should be temporary.
When Lightroom finishes its backup, it really should remove the "temporary" filesystem attribute since the file really isn't temporary anymore.
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