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

hodaszayeah, that's not what we want, we want control of the selective sync feature. Ignored files are never synced to dropbox.

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    hodasza
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    You are right, I'm sorry!
    I found this forum because of b9chris's post about VS dev problems and didn't read the original question.
    Ignoring bin, obj, etc... folders is a solution for b9chris's problem - it helped me for sure.

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