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kwar13
New member | Level 1
4 months ago

Add ".dropboxignore" to automatically ignore files/folders when syncing.

Currently the only way to exclude from dropbox sync is via the GUI as far as I understand. This is extremely cumbersome, because if you are writing code in a directory there are many reasons to want ...
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kwar13
New member | Level 1
4 months ago

In case anyone stumbles upon this thread, in the absence of a dropbox provided solution here is something I hacked together works:

https://github.com/kavehtehrani/dropbox-exclude

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