Starting OneDrive within shell() in R gets stuck-CodePudding

I recently asked this question: Import synced OneDrive files but no clear answer was given, although it made me look more into using the shell() command.

I am trying to do the following:

observe({
    invalidateLater(60*1000, session)
    shell("cd C:/Users/xxx/AppData/Local/Microsoft/OneDrive && onedrive.exe /reset")
    shell("cd C:/Users/xxx/AppData/Local/Microsoft/OneDrive && onedrive.exe")
    list <- list.files(path = "../../folder/folder", pattern = ".xlsx", recursive = T)
    
    ...
})

The idea behind this is to force shutdown OneDrive and restart it to force a fresh sync that doesn't require physically opening the file.

Using the first shell command, OneDrive closes really quickly. However, on the second command my R gets stuck. It will show me the following messages:

[OneAuth:Error:9zj9x:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000] OneAuth is not configured
[OneAuth:Error:9zj9x:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000] OneAuth is not configured
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [0]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [0]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [1]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [1]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [2]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [2]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [3]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [3]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [4]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [4]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [5]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [5]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [6]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [6]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [7]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [7]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [8]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [8]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [9]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [9]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkae:xxx] Start task AcquireCredentialSilently [10]
[OneAuth:Info:9zkad:xxx] Finish task AcquireCredentialSilently [10]

I can see that the files are syncing in OneDrive but even when all files are said to be synced the R process is not halting. When I try to close the process it tells me:

Child process not responding. R will terminate it

Are there any solutions for this? I also wonder what causes this issue in the first place.

CodePudding user response：

Seemingly answered by putting wait = F in the shell function like so:

shell("cd C:/Users/xxx/AppData/Local/Microsoft/OneDrive && onedrive.exe", wait = F)

This way starting OneDrive will be a background process instead not starting a child process. If you want to make sure the rest of the code runs only after OneDrive has fully resynced you can play around with Sys.sleep(). Additionally, make sure your invalidateLater timer is large enough to not reset OneDrive during a sync