Note: Through this bug I am talking about "syncing" from the dropbox perspective, nothing to do with tomboy native note syncing.

I have multiple computers each storing their Tomboy notes in dropbox. So on Windows I use TOMBOY_PATH to point to my c:\blah\my documents\Dropbox\Tomboy, and on Linux I symlink ~/local/share/tomboy -> ../../Dropbox/Tomboy/notes/

The idea being that when at home (Ubuntu) I can see the same notes as I can at work (Windows). Works fine except for today I noticed a funny.

Symptom: Dropbox constantly syncing, telling me over and over that (n) files have been updated. These files were tomboy notes. 

I think the sequence of events was this:-

Yesterday at work I closed tomboy and dropbox (windows).
Last night at home I opened tomboy (dropbox already running) (ubuntu).
I opened some notes and updated a few (ubuntu).
I left my desktop PC on at home with tomboy and dropbox running (ubuntu).
This morning I arrive at work and start Tomboy (but forget to start dropbox [yes, I appreciate it should start automatically but I'd rather files didn't arrive on my work machine without me knowing, and I'm only testing this tomboy/dropbox syncing method, so I manually started dropbox])
I edited some notes in tomboy (windows) and shortly after realise I didn't have dropbox running, so start it.
Dropbox repeatedly tells me that notes have been changed and it seems to be uploading changes from work to dropbox and at home it is probably downloading them then uploading other changes.
I stopped Tomboy on windows and the syncing stopped.

I reproduced this by starting Tomboy and ensuring no syncing was happening.
I created a brand new note at work and noticed dropbox doing its sync thing.
I then renamed the note, and again a sync event happened.
Then a sync event happened again and the note was renamed back to the original.
I then keep getting events over and over as the note is renamed.

Here's a debug snippet.

[DEBUG]: Creating Buffer for 'New Note 141'...
[DEBUG]: New Note 141 tags:
[DEBUG]: Saving 'New Note 141'...
[DEBUG]: Renaming note from New Note 141 to TestNoteSync  <-- I did this
[DEBUG]: Saving 'TestNoteSync'...
[DEBUG]: Renaming note from New Note 141 to New Note 141
[DEBUG]: Saving 'New Note 141'...
[DEBUG]: Renaming note from New Note 141 to New Note 141
[DEBUG]: Saving 'New Note 141'...