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Bhas
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Selective file type sync

i would like to have the selective file type syncing, so that we can avoid syncing backup files, plot log file, error files, some other unwanted file types. syncing will ever faster if we have this o...
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Bhas
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

The way it is explained there is not possible for everybody to do it. it better to provide the option not to sync (to the cloud) certain files like *.bak *.log, *.err in Dropbox preferences. so that it will reduce the storage space and save us some bandwidth as well. thanks

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