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Dropbox still opens files in ignored folders
I have a folder inside Dropbox that I'm trying to use for some hobby C++ development using MS Visual Studio I followed the process to have Dropbox ignore the temporary build folders (like /x64 and /...
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi mnicolella, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
If the folder is ignored, then files won't sync to the Dropbox site, as you've noted.
However, since the folder is still in the Dropbox folder, the app itself will still try to access it in general, even though no files are synced.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
Thank you for the reply. Is it not possible to have Dropbox check whether a file should be ignored or not, before it tries to open it and query information about it? Or, could there be a way to set a delay for inspecting changed files? If I could tell Dropbox "sure, build a list of files you want to go inspect, but don't actually touch them until 10 seconds later", that would also mitigate this race condition between dropbox and other tools generating these files.
- Jay
Currently, there isn't any feature like that available at this time, only the previous information regarding ignoring files and folders.
I appreciate the reply but I was kinda hoping that it could be considered a bug that Dropbox is inspecting files that are meant to be ignored, and maybe fixing this could be considered?
- Jay
We appreciate the feedback on this matter.
We take all comments into consideration when improving the Dropbox app and services.
