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Dropbox still opens files in ignored folders
I have a folder inside Dropbox that I'm trying to use for some hobby C++ development using MS Visual Studio I followed the process to have Dropbox ignore the temporary build folders (like /x64 and /...
Thank you for the reply. Is it not possible to have Dropbox check whether a file should be ignored or not, before it tries to open it and query information about it? Or, could there be a way to set a delay for inspecting changed files? If I could tell Dropbox "sure, build a list of files you want to go inspect, but don't actually touch them until 10 seconds later", that would also mitigate this race condition between dropbox and other tools generating these files.
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorCurrently, there isn't any feature like that available at this time, only the previous information regarding ignoring files and folders.
I appreciate the reply but I was kinda hoping that it could be considered a bug that Dropbox is inspecting files that are meant to be ignored, and maybe fixing this could be considered?
- Jay
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