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Antriel's avatar
Antriel
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago
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I don't see the option to ignore a folder within my right click's context menu. Any ideas?

According to https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignored-files there should be a "Don’t sync to dropbox.com" option. I don't see it. I'm not a business user. I'm using Windows 10 wi...
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    6 years ago

    Hi Antriel; welcome to our Community and thanks for using Dropbox!

     

    For starters, let me clarify that this option is available when viewing your files through our new desktop app and not through your File Explorer (or Finder for Macs). 

     

    That said, this feature is gradually rolling out to all of our users so you might want to use the alternative method to set a file/folder to be ignored: 

     

    Windows

    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

     

          3. Press enter on your keyboard.

     

    The icon beside your file or folder will change to a gray minus sign indicating that it has been ignored.

     

    Let me know how it goes! 

Small Systems's avatar
Small Systems
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

I did, and they couldn't help at all...

See my ticket #11204247

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defaria
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Great to know that support is dropping the ball... sigh

 

Meantime this doesn't work at all for me. First off, I'm on Linux and no person on Linux has ever used a path such as "/Users/yourname/Dropbox\ \(Personal\)/YourFileName.pdf". User's home directories do not go under /Users. That's  Mac thing.

 

Second, after doing:

 

$ attr -s com.dropbox.ignored -V 1 /home/andrew/Dropbox/web

 

the directory "web" is not ignored. It still appears on the Dropbox websites and apps that sync to Dropbox.

 

Finally, this **bleep** forum site hoses my Brave browser! If I hover over things like the ordered list dropdown or the 3 dot menu in the formatting menubar Brave and the X server go nuts, Brave stops responding and I have to kill the browser. Not good. Apparently, the JavaScript involved in that menuing bar is messed up.

 

Meantime, please tell me how to ignore Dropbox files and folders on Linux. Do not point me to some desktop app - there is no desktop app for Linux. The "desktop app" merely installs the Dropbox daemon to sync things and added some minimum functionality to Nautilus (Linux's version of say Windows File Manager). There is no separate app and there is no "Ignore this file/folder" in the right click menu of Nautilus.

 

 

$ attr -s com.dropbox.ignored -V 1 /Users/yourname/Dropbox\ \(Personal\)/YourFileName.pdf

 

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