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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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ivanrinaldo's avatar
ivanrinaldo
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

It's 2021 - Any update on this function? My team of over 15 people are very interested in this!

dwcapture's avatar
dwcapture
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

Yeah, this and several other requests are vital feature developments, but complex to integrate, requiring considerable effort.

 

Hmm, let's give it a little more time. To be reasonable, I'd say check back in about 15 years.

 

I'm sure by then they will be taken seriously and implemented.  🙂

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

    Dropbox absolutely needs a better feature request system than "Post on a forum somewhere and we'll pass it on, we pinky swear".

     

      • hodasza's avatar
        hodasza
        New member | Level 2
        5 years ago
        1. Open the PowerShell application on your computer.
        2. Type the code below, replacing the file/folder path placeholder with the file/folder path you’d like to ignore.
        Set-Content -Path 'C:\Users\yourname\Dropbox(Personal)\YourFileName.pdf' -Stream com.dropbox.ignored -Value 1
        to unignore:
        Clear-Content -Path 'C:\Users\yourname\Dropbox(Personal)\YourFileName.pdf' -Stream com.dropbox.ignored
         

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