vue-cli does not hot reload when running from within Dropbox folder (no special characters)

[bugs181]

I have a project that works fine when outside of the Dropbox folder, however if I try to make changes from within the Dropbox folder, those changes are not hot reloaded. The file path does not contain any spaces, parentheses, or other characters so that excludes the webpack/watchpack#42 issue.

Directions: Make a change to a .Vue component file and nothing happens.

File path: /Users/levi/Dropbox/Company/Project
Command: npm run dev
OS: Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.1

Versions:
vue -V: 2.8.2
npm -v: 5.0.3
node -v: v8.1.2

package.json versions:
webpack: ^2.6.1
webpack-bundle-analyzer: ^2.2.1
webpack-merge: ^4.1.0
vue-loader: ^12.1.0
file-loader: ^0.11.1
opn: ^4.0.2

Please let me know if there are further tests I can run.

[LinusBorg]

That's a general problem with Webpack's File watching mechanism. It usually can only be fixed by switching to a poll mechanism, whcih we made available in the template config very recently.

https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack/blob/develop/template/config/index.js#L21