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Local-Only - Any updates on a built in way to set local-only files?

Local-Only - Any updates on a built in way to set local-only files?

Justin from Just Front-end
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I know we have this under the hood means of setting local-only files:

https://help.dropbox.com/sync/ignored-files

 

But I was just seeing if there was an easier, out-of-the-box way of doing it now? Or any plans of such a feature.

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Rich
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@Justin from Just Front-end wrote:

... I was just seeing if there was an easier, out-of-the-box way of doing it now?


That is the only method.

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Rich
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@Justin from Just Front-end wrote:

... I was just seeing if there was an easier, out-of-the-box way of doing it now?


That is the only method.

Justin from Just Front-end
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@Rich - Thanks Rich!

 

Here's a question I posted in another thread. By chance, do you know the answer to this? 

 

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Are you by chance, able to explain exactly what this command is doing?

"Set-Content -Path C:\Users\yourName\Dropbox\someFolder -Stream com.dropbox.ignored -Value 1"

 

I read the Microsoft docs on "Set-Content", but I'm perplexed exactly on how this stops Dropbox from syncing? Is there a list of files/folders somewhere on one's computer which Dropbox uses as a reference for what files/folders not to sync?

 

Or is such a reference stored in the cloud?

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