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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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10 years ago

Thanks for the detailed feedback Adam! We don't have another place to vote on these requests; your post here is fine. Unfortunately I don't have a good solution to offer you though. Apologies I don't have any news!

  • Jason R. C.'s avatar
    Jason R. C.
    Helpful | Level 6
    9 years ago

    I also would like this feature to avoid syncing other suppert files like tox virtual environments.

  • philip-lf's avatar
    philip-lf
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago

    Hey Greg, any update on a selective sync API or dropbox ignore file? thanks

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      8 years ago
      No, I don't have an update on this.
      • blizzrdof77's avatar
        blizzrdof77
        Helpful | Level 6
        7 years ago

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

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