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Justin from Just Front-end
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Local-Only - Any updates on a built in way to set local-only files?

I know we have this under the hood means of setting local-only files:

https://help.dropbox.com/sync/ignored-files

 

But I was just seeing if there was an easier, out-of-the-box way of doing it now? Or any plans of such a feature.

    • Justin from Just Front-end's avatar
      Justin from Just Front-end
      Explorer | Level 3

      Rich - Thanks Rich!

       

      Here's a question I posted in another thread. By chance, do you know the answer to this? 

       

      Start of message:

      Are you by chance, able to explain exactly what this command is doing?

      "Set-Content -Path C:\Users\yourName\Dropbox\someFolder -Stream com.dropbox.ignored -Value 1"

       

      I read the Microsoft docs on "Set-Content", but I'm perplexed exactly on how this stops Dropbox from syncing? Is there a list of files/folders somewhere on one's computer which Dropbox uses as a reference for what files/folders not to sync?

       

      Or is such a reference stored in the cloud?

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