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Windows Subsystem for Linux - Sync Issues

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Situation

You have php application in WSL /var/www/application and you want edit it from windows with IDE (ie. PHPStorm).

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Issues

• Modified files does not update in WSL command line
• New files does not show in WSL command line
• Modified files behave badly - can not mv, ls, rm, applications refuse to use them and not found messages
• WSL uses file system cache

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Why

I found question with reasonable answers answer and answer
TL:DR - Sharing/synchronizing of WSL files to windows is not supported.

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Solution

It's recommended to cd to windows folder and work there.
Move files from /var/www/application to C:/Users/VBoss/Projects/application. Then set paths and configs to use this path /mnt/c/Users/VBoss/Projects/application.
And done, in my case i can run composer install in application folder using php from WSL.

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Posted: 07 Mar 2017