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Ignoring a directory does not work
Dear all,
I am trying to get dropbox to ignore a directory that we use to create ~200K small temporary files using the command given in this article:
https://help.dropbox.com/sync/ignored...
Currently, it isn't possible to bulk ignore folders, they'd need to be manually ignored as and when they exist in your Dropbox folder.
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi hrahmani, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Did you copy the command exactly, as you entered a backslash at the end of the command after 1.
This will help me to assist further!
The backslash is a mistake in this message not in the command. Thank you for the quick response, after I posted it I started playing more with the PowerShell commands and this worked:
cd [the parent directory]
Set-Content ./subtomo:com.dropbox.ignored -value 1
Now I can see the value when I use
Get-Content .\subtomo:com.dropbox.ignored
and in the file explorer I see the gray minus sign on that directory.
- Jay
Thanks for the info. Does this mean you were able to successfully ignore the folder you needed?
I believe so (I want to test it but I don't see a reason for it to go wrong.). Are there resources available for me to ignore all the directories with this name? Like ignore every directory matching "Data/*/subtomo/" even the ones that are created later?
This can even work if there is a way to create the subtomo/ directory for every new folder in Data/ and then ignore it.
Thanks for you help.
- Jay
Currently, it isn't possible to bulk ignore folders, they'd need to be manually ignored as and when they exist in your Dropbox folder.
