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vladgasan
Dropbox Product Manager
Dropbox Product ManagerCut the Clutter: Ignore Files Feature is now live
Update: This feature is now live and available to all individual plan customers! Thank you to all our testers, and share your feedback with the team, we're still eager to hear from you!
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I’m trying to use the automatic ignore feature on Windows.
I’ve set up rules in rules.dropboxignore, and it works right after I save it — for example, if I exclude main.pdf, it stays on my PC and doesn’t sync to the cloud.
But after I reboot my PC and dropbox starts again, main.pdf gets uploaded/synced to the cloud anyway. The only way I can fix it is to manually delete the file from Dropbox, edit 'rules.dropboxignore' again, and then put the file back — then it stops syncing.
Any tips to make the ignore rule persist after a restart?
(Setup: Windows 11 + latest dropbox beta version.)
- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi jshan, is it only occurring for that specific file, or other files as well that you've added to the ignore list?
HelloJay, this happens with any ignored file if it’s in the Dropbox folder before shutdown, after reboot Dropbox starts syncing it to the cloud.
- Jay
Thanks for the update. If you delete these files with the rule still intact, do they re-upload after rebooting the machine if they are recreated?
This section of the article might help explain why the files are being re-uploaded.
