Checking in and out / pause sync on folder

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projectdeliverypartners wrote:

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I would very much like to avoid copying whole project folder location if i can. ...

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Hi again projectdeliverypartners,

To be honest I have no idea why you need this copy, delete, etc. 🤔 Isn't keeping the files on single place doesn't work for you? (Let's say keep them outside
the Dropbox folder and opt out the same folder in Selective Sync on Dropbox application, for instance)

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projectdeliverypartners wrote:

... A better way to me would be to:

- pause syncing as i do manually only limit to a particular folder or (with firewall?),

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As I said, if you work on Linux, that would be very simple way:

#!/usr/bin/bash
dropbox stop
#
# do something on your project here
#
dropbox start

 Unfortunately, inapplicable on Windows and Mac. Dropbox application there doesn't come with CLI. 🤷 Using firewall or other similar workarounds would not work!

It's good idea to check why a changed file stays with the same timestamp, if there is such. 😉 This gonna give you direction.

PS: One more detail, you may be useful to know, is fact that metadata itself alone are never updated by Dropbox! In other words metadata gets, eventually, changed when least one byte in the file data is different. If you update some file (text or binary) to exactly the same content, local timestamp will change, but cloud timestamp wont! Such files aren't considered changed; keep this in mind.