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GTFreymann
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago
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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...
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    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/Apps

    Good luck.

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GTFreymann
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago
GTFreymann wrote:

Awh, I see 🙂

 

Ok, I'll give that a try. Thanks! 

~/dropbox.py exclude add ~/Dropbox/Apps

This works!

I started dropbox and then had to keep listing the ~/Dropbox folder in order to see what folders it was syncing, and then run the command on that Directory one by one as they appeared.

Great news! I hope this helps somebody in the future.

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 years ago
GTFreymann wrote:

..., and then run the command on that Directory one by one as they appeared.

...

One more thing: You don't need to run the command for every one folder. You may list more folders at the same time if you want. For instance you may execute something like:

~/dropbox.py exclude add ~/Dropbox/Apps ~/Dropbox/Documents

In such a way both Apps and Documents will be excluded. 😉

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