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Igal Tabachnik
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Control selective sync programmatically
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to control selective sync programmatically? There's a certain folder I want to sync, for example, in certain hours of the day. With a cron job, I could instruct select...
b9chris
8 years agoHelpful | Level 6
This is my #1 problem with Dropbox. Either:
1. It's on while coding in Visual Studio, which constantly breaks the application while running and continually causes files I'm not editing to prompt me for reload. It occasionally corrupts my work, swapping in a slightly older version of a file I was just working on.
2. It's off while coding, which is the majority of my day, eliminating the real-time backup benefits of Dropbox.
3. It's off Selective Sync for my code folder, which is just 2 again
4. I Selective Sync every single scratch folder Visual Studio uses, every single bin and obj folder throughout my machine, which is at least 500 folders and increases over time as I take on new projects.
It's been 5 years of this. It's time for Dropbox to adopt a .gitignore style file. Heck just give me literally that file and name it .dropboxignore
Jonathan L.24
8 years agoHelpful | Level 5
I'd like to see this too.
- IvanSt8 years agoNew member | Level 2Need this functionality so much..
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