Cannot exclude username folder from Dropbox sync with linux server

[isoci]

Hello,

I have dropbox account, which is syncing with linux server. The problem is that i cannot exclude folder with username.

For example I have folder A, B and USERNAME. The username folder is created by dropbox and I don't have to remove it. I can exclude folder A and/or B, but username is syncing always, despite i exclude it.

How can I delete or exclude folder?

[Vincent B.10]

Well, I can confirm wildcards don’t work for excluding. This would be really handy though, to be able to do something like:

exclude add “user name/*”

[Здравко]

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@Vincent B.10 wrote:
... This would be really handy though, to be able to do something like:

exclude add “user name/*”

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Hm..🤔 and what about following:

find "user name" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec dropbox exclude add {} +

Isn't it handy enough? 😉

By the way... your shell syntax is wrong and not only Dropbox command cannot work in such a way. In fact you have disabled the wildcard feature. 😜 In such a way you're telling to the application (Dropbox application in particular) to look for star named file/folder (will never succeed, of course - there is no such).

[Vincent B.10]

Yeah okay, my syntax was incorrect. Sorry for that, I was typing on my phone.

I realize there are ways to add multiple directories to the exclusion at once, but the thing is: directories get added to my Dropbox account all the time. Adding a cronjob to exclude new directories seems a bit silly…