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acfc
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Linux symlinks pointing outside of Dropbox folder -- can I keep them without syncing their targets?

I've noticed that my Dropbox icon is constantly syncing, which led me to this forum to investigate. I have a feeling it's related to how I'm using symlinks in my Dropbox folder, though I haven't foun...
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    3 years ago

    Ok, I've figured out that this had nothing at all to do with symlinks! The real problem was that I had a couple instances of VSCode open, which added a ton of files to the system watchers limit. I closed everything down, restarted my laptop, and the syncing finished as expected. Then I "unexcluded" all of the symlinks I had excluded initially, and they sync just fine (not syncing their target content, just existing as pointers to directories).

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