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jvasileff
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

Feedback on the new desktop app "ignore files" feature.

@Daphne that's great news! I look forward to trying it out. But it would also be nice to have a configuration file, like ".dropboxignore", to list paths or patterns to exclude. The reason is that e...
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corylulu
Helpful | Level 7
5 years ago

@Daphne Okay, XionicFire was right, I was simply having an issue because my paths had square brackets `[]`  in them and I needed to use `-LiteralPath` instead of `-Path`. 

However, even after ignoring the folders I wanted to ignore, Dropbox is still deciding to index them on every change and is locking file access when doing so, which is causing me lots of problems.

Dropbox shouldn't be accessing the files inside of an ignored folder at all. Also, Dropbox didn't used to lock file access when indexing/syncing, what changed? 

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