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Make online only does absolutely nothing on Windows 11.
I'm syncing my pictures and documents folders to dropbox via backup (windows 11). I want to make a few large folders in pictures to be online only as i don't use them much so don't need them taking s...
Megan
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey aave, welcome to our Community!
I'm not entirely sure we have a way to ignore these files, especially since they are created each time you open the app.
It sounds like the Nvidia app files are causing that to happen.
However, it doesn't hurt to have a look at our ignore feature, and test to see if this works out for you. I'm not 100% set it would work, since the app creates a new file each time, but it doesn't hurt to try it out.
Thanks!
I did look at ignore. since the file is created by and constantly open in nvidia app, the Set-Command throws an error. Don't think .dropboxignore is a thing yet but that would be very handy in this case.
tbh, it would be fine if dropbox is unable to do anything with the lock file, however, it starts downloading all online only files+folders back to my PC the moment it runs into sync issues.
