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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 created by dropbox and I don't have to remove it. I can exclude folder A and/or B, but username is syncing always, despite i exclude it.
How can I delete or exclude folder?
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Hello. Yes, I tried excluded whole folder or subfolder. The info was succesfull but it synchronizes >.<
- Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
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?
- Jay
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.
- Walter
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.
- Hi Walter,
I don’t want to delete it, I want to exclude it. Is that the same thing, from Dropbox’s perspective?
Alsof, this is perhaps something for another topic, if I can’t exclude it, is it possible to use wildcards for excluding files in Dropbox on Linux? Adding all these directories by hand is not something I consider fun. - Nancy
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.
- 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/*”
