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Control selective sync programmatically
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to control selective sync programmatically? There's a certain folder I want to sync, for example, in certain hours of the day. With a cron job, I could instruct select...
is there a way to tell the dropbox client to ignore certain directories and/or files in a manner similar to a .gitignore file?
sometimes i create numerous temporary files within a directory that is sync'd via dropbox and i'd like to be able to tell the client to not bother syncing the temp files.
of course, i can do this via the client's preferences panel, but this is onerous at best. being able to do so from the command-line would be awesome.
thanks!
jeff o.4 wrote:is there a way to tell the dropbox client to ignore certain directories and/or files in a manner similar to a .gitignore file?
sometimes i create numerous temporary files within a directory that is sync'd via dropbox and i'd like to be able to tell the client to not bother syncing the temp files.
of course, i can do this via the client's preferences panel, but this is onerous at best. being able to do so from the command-line would be awesome.
thanks!
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