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sync only one folder on linux
I have a huge dropbox business account, and I'd like to sync one "deep" folder on a linux client. This folder is deep in the folder hierarchy, so for example the folder: "folder 1/folder 2/folder 3"...
Ahh, OK. This makes sense. So, I need to include folder 1. Then exclude all children of folder 1. Something like:
dropbox.py exclude remove ~/Dropbox/folder 1
dropbox.py exclude add ~/Dropbox/folder 1/*
dropbox.py exclude remove ~/Dropbox/folder 1/folder 2
dropbox.py exclude add ~/Dropbox/folder 1/folder 2/*
dropbox.py exclude remove ~/Dropbox/folder 1/folder 2/folder 3
I'll give that a try...
Did you get this to work? I have a problem where I can't sync the single folder I want, because despite excluding all the other folders, dropbox still wants to download all of them first before then deleting the excluded ones. This doesn't work because my hard drive is not big enough to sync the entire dropbox folder.
I can't find a way to set up the exclude list in advance before syncing, and having it not even attempt to download the excluded folders. You mention having a 10TB dropbox, so I imagine this is a problem you would run into as well, unless I'm just being dumb somehow.
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi jamespi, thanks for your message. I'd recommend contacting the support team to look into this matter in more detail.I would suggest this is a common use case and should be treated as a mainstream use of the product. I'm setting up a Minecraft server on Digital Ocean and just assumed it'd be easy to use Dropbox in this fashion. All I wanted to do was basically sync a directory like Games/Minecraft to this droplet, without having to first sync the entire service (which is prohibitively large for this VM). We need an --exclude * and then --include foo type of mechanism.
Just wondering if this question was ever resolved/fixed.
I too would like to only have one folder, on the top level, of an account synced on my Linux headless server without having to have the whole account synced first before I can exclude all other folders.
