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Tobias3's avatar
Tobias3
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Selective Sync Support on Linux

Hi,   I am a longtime paid Dropbox customer on Linux. The set of data I would like to keep and backup in the cloud is growing beyond the size of my hard drive, and I need a solution to selectively ...
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thedbuser's avatar
thedbuser
Explorer | Level 3
3 months ago

dropbox exclude add 'dir_name'

 

What I did was:

for dir in *;do echo "${dir}";dropbox exclude add "${dir}";done

dropbox exclude remove dir_that_I_want_to_keep_synced

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