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Cannot exclude username folder from Dropbox sync with linux server
Hello,
I have dropbox account, which is syncing with linux server. The problem is that i cannot exclude folder with username.
For example I have folder A, B and USERNAME. The username folder is c...
Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey 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.
Well, I can confirm wildcards don’t work for excluding. This would be really handy though, to be able to do something like:
exclude add “user name/*”
exclude add “user name/*”
Vincent B.10 wrote:
... This would be really handy though, to be able to do something like:
exclude add “user name/*”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).
- Yeah okay, my syntax was incorrect. Sorry for that, I was typing on my phone.
I realize there are ways to add multiple directories to the exclusion at once, but the thing is: directories get added to my Dropbox account all the time. Adding a cronjob to exclude new directories seems a bit silly…
