You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

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jvasileff
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

Feedback on the new desktop app "ignore files" feature.

@Daphne that's great news! I look forward to trying it out. But it would also be nice to have a configuration file, like ".dropboxignore", to list paths or patterns to exclude. The reason is that e...
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David L.31
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

Anyone on Windows found that Set-Content doesn't work for folders any more? It uesd to but now just throws an error.

 

OK, it doesn't work in newer versions of PowerShell. You'll need to find v1 (for me this was in C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe). Using PowerShell 7 won't work.

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