My localhost died on Tuesday and I almost lost a week of work

I was running a simple Python script to pull data from an old CSV file when my laptop froze. After the forced restart, my virtual environment would not activate and the terminal kept throwing a module not found error. Turned out the file path had a hidden space that got introduced when I moved my project folder to Dropbox. I spent 4 hours reinstalling packages before I saw the typo in my own directory name. Has anyone else had file sync tools quietly mess up their project setup?

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emmajackson1mo ago

God, yes. Dropbox renamed my folder and I lost a whole afternoon to that garbage.