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"Resource deadlock avoided" when trying to copy a file to box using bash

  • May 22, 2025
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Hi Iam using box drive 2.24.208 on macOS(21C52). I am trying to copy a file from my local disk to box ie "cp <filename> "/Users/<user_name>/Library/CloudStorage/Box-Box/<destination folder>"

And iam keep getting "Resource deadlock avoided" error messages

Any ideas 

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The same thing happened in my environment, box drive 2.24.208 on macOS BigSur 11.6.2.

In my environment, I got the same error "Resource deadlock avoided" with the "cd" and "mv" commands.

 


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I tried a couple of different methods.
I found that I could avoid about 90% of the errors by running the command "cp -f".
Since the mutex error is probably occurring in Box's synchronization system, I don't think the client side can handle it any better.