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GTFreymann
2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Dropbox on Debian 12. But it wants to sync all of my Dropbox files down to the debian box.
I successfully installed Dropbox on a headless Debian 12 VPS. I authorized it and it works.
I am hoping to be able to backup files on the debian machine to my Dropbox account, as I have lots o...
- 2 years ago
Once again: Your command will work only when your current working directory is the Dropbox folder! In such a way the folder name is path too. Otherwise no.
To work in all cases you may try something like:
~/dropbox.py exclude add ~/Dropbox/AppsGood luck.
Здравко
2 years agoLegendary | Level 20
GTFreymann wrote:..., none of the commands I've tried have told debian dropbox to not sync anything else to the debian dropbox.
Hi GTFreymann,
Hm..🤔 You want to stop syncing particular folders down to your local folder (i.e. to add them to a list of excluded folders). Let's see...
GTFreymann wrote:...
I tried some command line options using the python script:
./dropbox.py exclude remove Apps
Where "Apps" is a folder in my dropbox that I don't want to sync ...
Ah..🤷 What are you trying actually? Do you want to add or to remove folder to exclude list (i.e. to remove something that's not there actually - by default this list is empty - initially)? 🧐
Clarify to yourself what exactly you're going to do and would be easier. 😉
Hope this helps.
GTFreymann
2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Also here is screen grab from my windows computers of the folders I have sync'd to Dropbox.com
On this PC - you can see I have some folders un-checked.
On the Debian client, I don't want *any* of these folders to sync from Dropbox.com TO the debian box. But I need to know what commands to run to tell the debian client to ignore 13 folders.
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