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Nuno_Viegas
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6 years ago

A file in my Dropbox folder can't be synced due to OneDrive, also can't be ignored. What can I do?

Hi guys. I have been using Dropbox for many years but my company started using OneDrive. But, I would like to keep all documents in Dropbox to keep everything centralized and just one app on the ph...
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Rich
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6 years ago

It's not recommended, at all, to place one service's sync folder inside that of another service. Conflicts like the one you're seeing are bound to happen, and such a configuration cannot be supported by Dropbox.

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Nuno_Viegas
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Hi Rich.

I know that.

But if i can't do this, i have to move everything from dropbox to OneDrive.

And really didn't want that.

I belive that excluding that file from sync will resolve the problem.

Or if Dropbox ignore system and/or hidden files.

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