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Is there a way for the desktop app to not sync a folder, while it's being accessed by another app?
I have a portable app that runs on windows. instead of copying it to a usb drive, I put in a subfolder in the dropbox tree --- this schema works quite well --- on issue that I have from tim...
Frank P E. wrote:
is there a way to "tell" dropbox to pause sync'ing on the folder in question while the app runs?
No.
If there is CLI access to dropbox.exe that would be a bonus hereThere isn't.
The only option you have is to pause syncing manually. You could tell it to ignore the folder, but then your app wouldn't sync either. Dropbox would completely ignore the folder.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
Frank P E. wrote:
is there a way to "tell" dropbox to pause sync'ing on the folder in question while the app runs?
No.
If there is CLI access to dropbox.exe that would be a bonus here
There isn't.
The only option you have is to pause syncing manually. You could tell it to ignore the folder, but then your app wouldn't sync either. Dropbox would completely ignore the folder.
thanks for the info --- I used the ignore option before, but as you noted it would apply to the entire folder ---- I guess the manual option is ok --
