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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 - Dropbox Help
The instructions for Windows say Right Click & Choose "Don't Sync to DropBox.com",
The option is not present on the context menu (Win 10 & Win11)
The Help article should say
Use the PowerShell command. It's the only way to unsync a file or folder
Please fix the article
Spilly82
Perhaps you would pass on my last point to the developers
- just automate the issueI 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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I'd comment that the Powershell command appears to work
I've been struggling with this minor irritant for a while now. I have moved my DropBox root just below the root of a separate D: Data drive and configured Windows Search to index the whole drive.
I find that Windows Search can create a "Search" folder within the DropBox tree. I, as Admin, do NOT have full rights over the subfolders. Dropbox logs many sync errors. I've written this up in another post.
I'm guessing the Search folder is workspace for the indexing process. NB I think Search leaves all folders empty on termination.
Poor old Dropbox doesn't understand what's going on if it syncs during indexing (as by design it should).
And the DropBox system tray icon ends up with irritating permanent errors about deleted temporary files & folders. The error Tree is D:\Users\username\DropBox\Search\Data\Temp\usgthrsvc\...I used Powershell to ignore the subfolder named Data.
It would be good if the Dropbox app could figure this out and suspend sync for children of usgthrsvc .
spilly82
Perhaps you would pass on my last point to the developers
- just automate the issueI 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
