Bash script to scan your Dropbox folder for "conflicted copy" files and move them to your Trash folder (MacOS and Linux only).

trash_conflicted_copy_files.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This script will scan your Dropbox folder for "conflicted copy" files and move them to your Trash folder.
# The path to your Dropbox folder will be determined by reading a JSON file that should be present if Dropbox is installed.


##### Make sure we're running on MacOS or Linux (and snag the path to the trash directory while we're at it)

if [[ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]]; then
  TRASH=$(realpath ~/.Trash)

elif [[ "$(expr substr $(uname -s) 1 5)" == "Linux" ]]; then
  TRASH=$(realpath ~/.local/share/trash)

else
  echo "This script only runs on MacOS or Linux."
  exit
fi


##### Sanity check: make sure the Trash directory actually exists

if [[ ! -d "${TRASH}" ]]; then
  echo "Expected to find Trash directory at ${TRASH}"
  exit
fi


##### Check that a info.json file exists (if Dropbox is installed, it should be exactly here)

dropboxInfoFile=$(realpath ~/.dropbox/info.json)

if [[ ! -f "${dropboxInfoFile}" ]]; then
  echo "Could not find ${dropboxInfoFile}"
  exit
fi


##### Try to read the path to the Dropbox folder from the info.json file

dropboxInfo=$(cat "${dropboxInfoFile}")
dropboxPersonal=${dropboxInfo#*\"personal\":}
dropboxPath=${dropboxPersonal#*path\":}
dropboxPath=${dropboxPath#*\"}
dropboxPath=${dropboxPath%%\"*}

if [[ ! -d "${dropboxPath}" ]]; then
  echo "Expected to find Dropbox at ${dropboxPath}"
  exit
fi


##### Now search the Dropbox path for files containing "conflicted copy"

conflictedFiles=()
while IFS=  read -r -d $'\0'; do
    conflictedFiles+=("$REPLY")
done < <(find "${dropboxPath}" -name "*(*'s conflicted copy [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]*" -print0)


##### See if we have any work to do

if [[ ${#conflictedFiles[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
  echo "No conflicted files were found."
  exit
fi

##### Deal with those files

echo "Found ${#conflictedFiles[@]} files; attempting to move them to ${TRASH}"

for filename in "${conflictedFiles[@]}"; do
  mv "${filename}" "${TRASH}/"
done

echo "Done"