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Igal Tabachnik's avatar
Igal Tabachnik
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

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...
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blizzrdof77's avatar
blizzrdof77
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago

This would be extremely useful. Any progress Greg-DB?

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

blizzrdof77 No, unfortunately I don't have any news on this request.

  • mm_POC's avatar
    mm_POC
    Explorer | Level 4
    7 years ago

    Does Dropbox not see the need for this ? This seems like a somewhat basic request for something to control with an API...why is this a multi year request with many articles, requests and workarounds? 

    Seems like most of us are needing to work around "node_modules" or other dev temp files...

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      7 years ago

      mm_POC Thanks for the feedback! I can't offer insight as to any why any particular feature was or wasn't implemented, but I'll send this along to the team.

      • dorival's avatar
        dorival
        New member | Level 2
        7 years ago

        We definitively need to ignore node_modules. I have a script for this on Linux but cannot exclude files on macOS... too bad

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