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rihartley's avatar
rihartley
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

selective sync from command line

I work on different computers, running Windows, Linux and MacOS.  I am compiling C++ programs on each computer, from the same source.  There is no use syncing compiled objects and executables across ...
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Lusil
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6 years ago

Hi rihartley, thanks for dropping by!

 

What you're looking for sounds like what is described in this article, where you can set a file or folder to be "ignored" from syncing. 

 

Check it out and let me know if it helps. Cheers!

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