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venexiano
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2 days ago

Is it possible to move Dropbox selective sync exclusions to a new PC?

I have Dropbox Business with University of Florida (I cannot post here with the UF account for some weird reason so I need to use my personal one). When I changed computer 5 years ago I was shocked I had to de-sync tens or hundreds of folders manually ONE by ONE when porting Dropbox to my new Windows PC. Now that I bought a even better desktop and time is passed, I am even more shocked that I still have to de-sync hundreds-Thousands of folders manually when moving it to my new PC. No progress seemed to be made, although I communicated the issue with you. My team projects are in thousands of folders. Each folder has a BIGdata folder that we de-sync when it becomes too big and/or when the project is old. We can always go back and retreive the files we need. I cant believe I need to click thousands times through the folders to de-sync them in the new PC. You guys please absolutely have a way to solve a Dropbox configuration text file with sync exclusions that can be imported in the new PC so we do not need to desync hundreds of folders manually in each new PC and for each new hire. Please tell me this feature exists, but from my research I cannot see it. Thank you a lot.

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    Jay
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    Hi venexiano, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

    Currently, it isn't possible to copy selective sync settings to another PC or device when you install the Dropbox desktop application.

    We appreciate your feedback on this matter and we do take all comments into consideration when improving the Dropbox site and services!