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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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Greg-DB's avatar
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

    • Kieran360's avatar
      Kieran360
      Helpful | Level 5
      6 years ago

      Any news on when or if this feature will be added? It's been five years of people asking. Why doesn't dropbox have somewhere we can request features?

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

        Kieran360 Thanks for your post! Unfortunately I don't have any news on if or when Dropbox may decide to implement and release the ability to programmatically control the selective sync feature. We appreciate the feedback though, and forum posts like this are a good place to send feature requests. 

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