I would never in my right mind add parenthesis to a path name (i.e. "(" or ")"). Unfortunately Dropbox does this when you have a personal account and company account on the same machine. I store my personal projects in "~/Dropbox (Personal)". I've been trying for a while to figure out why I couldn't get react hot reloading to work and the parenthesis in the project path seem to cause watch to not notice file change. To reproduce run the webpack tutorial from a directory with parenthesis in its name.

Webpack version:
1.13.1

Please tell us about your environment:
OSX 10.11.5

Current behavior:
webpack --watch will not notice changes in files and thus will not recompile or update the UI.

Expected/desired behavior:
Webpack worked just like it does with a path without parenthesis in the name.

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
  Dropbox folder naming suckage.