Cannot exclude username folder from Dropbox sync with linux server

Hey isoci, I'm sorry to jump in here, but have you tried excluding the team member's folder's subfolders instead of the whole member folder? 

Hello. Yes, I tried excluded whole folder or subfolder. The info was succesfull but it synchronizes >.<

Hi isoci, could you clarify the app's current syncing status, please? 

If you could also send us a screenshot of the folders you chose to exclude that are still on the device, I'd appreciate it. 

I also just got migrated to the new file structure, so I have "Company name" and "User name" folders in my Dropbox root. Excluding the company folder was easy enough:

"dropbox exclude add companyname"

I would however also like to exclude the "User name" folder, apart from one directory inside this folder ("User name/keep-syncing-this"). However running this:

"dropbox exclude add 'User name'"

says the folder is excluded, but when I run dropbox exclude list, it's not there. Excluding subdirs inside the "User name" folder works, but this is rather tedious since the contents of "User name" are in flux, so I will have to keep adding new subdirs to the exclusion list.

Is there a way to do this?

Hi Vincent B.10, are you certain that you're adding the folder correctly using the arguments given on this page?

Yep, pretty sure. As you can see in the screenshot below, I add the exclusion with "dropbox exclude add $username", which it confirms. But it doesn't show up in the exclusion list:

Edit: just to be clear, this is a business account.

Hey Vincent B.10, sorry to jump in here, but I just wanted to mention that by design users can't delete the team member folder on any platform. 

I hope this clarifies matters. 

Hey Vincent B.10, I hope you're doing well. 

I double checked this with the team, and they've confirmed that the team member folder can't be selsynced out. 

Also, I'm afraid we don't offer support for wildcards, so I can't provide details on this. Perhaps, you can give it a try, and see if it'd work for what you wish to achieve.

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Vincent B.10 wrote:
... This would be really handy though, to be able to do something like:

exclude add “user name/*”

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Hm..🤔 and what about following:

find "user name" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec dropbox exclude add {} +

Isn't it handy enough? 😉

By the way... your shell syntax is wrong and not only Dropbox command cannot work in such a way. In fact you have disabled the wildcard feature. 😜 In such a way you're telling to the application (Dropbox application in particular) to look for star named file/folder (will never succeed, of course - there is no such).