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spilly82
Helpful | Level 6
9 months ago
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Set Dropbox to ignore a file or folder

There is a Help article on how to do this. It says "Hover over DropBox icon and choose Ignore..." These instructions are incorrect Misleading article: How to set a file or folder to be ignored - D...
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    spilly82
    9 months ago

    Walter 

    Perhaps you would pass on my last point to the developers
    - just automate the issue

    I suggest it could be quite simple:
    If a Folder is found in the DropBox tree with SYSTEM Ownership, then DropBox should never copy or attempt to restore the folder or its contents.  In my example the Search Folder Owner is SYSTEM, and so are all its children of course.

    That would fix my Sync issues with Windows Search

spilly82's avatar
spilly82
Helpful | Level 6
9 months ago

Walter 

Perhaps you would pass on my last point to the developers
- just automate the issue

I suggest it could be quite simple:
If a Folder is found in the DropBox tree with SYSTEM Ownership, then DropBox should never copy or attempt to restore the folder or its contents.  In my example the Search Folder Owner is SYSTEM, and so are all its children of course.

That would fix my Sync issues with Windows Search

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Jay
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9 months ago

Hi spilly82, we appreciate the feedback on this matter and have informed the appropriate teams of your observations.
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