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Can't un-exclude directories with `dropbox.py exclude remove <directory>` on Ubuntu 20.04.2
I have a Linux machine (running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, "Focal Fossa") upon which I am running a "headless" Dropbox daemon as per here: https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux
The Dropbox daemon is u...
I'm a paying customer and contacted support. I informed them of this forum thread and the multiple users facing the same issue. I'll update everyone if I hear a resolution, but I hope Dropbox addresses the issue here.
UPDATE:
A couple weeks ago I got a reply back from Dropbox support saying:
"I've raised this with our engineering teams, and will be back in touch with any updates or information."
Well, 2 weeks later and still no update 😒
Just unlink your device in the https://www.dropbox.com/account/security and add them again in the system. It start sync again with all files (existing files won't be touched, just re-sync it). No need to re-install! (Then If needed you can again exclude some files/folders.)
I would call this more a trivial hack than a solution. If I could down vote, I would.
Do you have simplier solution? Or even another one solution? Re-install system completely it's better?
I'm not defending developers, on the contrary, they are leave bad bug and still not fix! But thankfully we have one more solution than completely re-install OS.
