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Quuzuu
Helpful | Level 5
6 months ago

Report: error in the new macOS File Provider section of the "how to ignore file" doc in help center

My personal guess of the correct command is 

xattr -w 'com.apple.fileprovider.ignore#P' 1 "path/to/file-or-folder"

 

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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
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    6 months ago

    Hey Quuzuu, thanks for reaching out to us.

     

    We've made sure to pass this along to our team, so they can correct any mistakes made here.

     

    Thanks for reporting and if you need anything else, let us know.

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