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Can't un-exclude directories with `dropbox.py exclude remove <directory>` on Ubuntu 20.04.2
I have a Linux machine (running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, "Focal Fossa") upon which I am running a "headless" Dropbox daemon as per here: https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux
The Dropbox daemon is u...
Funny - I was just last week wondering how I had managed to setup the selective sync on one of my Linux machines without using the exclusion list. As the list was empty, I was assuming it was not in use.
Now I hit the problem on another machine as well. The main problem is that this also seems to make it impossible to remove folders form the exclusion lists.
I'm a bit surprised this kind of regression is labeled as "low priority". This file syncing stuff is kind of key feature of the product. Re-installation etc. are not a cool workaround when you have some hundreds of thousands of files.
Very frustrating. I have paid for many years.
This bug has ground all of my work to a halt. I can't keep using my 2 TB Dropbox account for my work if I can't selectively pick which of my directories are being used on a Ubuntu machine.
For whatever reason the developers at Dropbox don't want to spend the week of developer time it would take to fix their program up.
My solutions to this are twofold:
- Insync (which is also headless) although your I have not tested this for taxing workloads.
- As I said in a previous post VNC --> GUI works.
I didn't realize using Insync could be a solution to this. I had used them in the past for Google Drive but that sounds like a good idea. Thanks! GUI is out of the question for me 😞
