I've noticed that my Dropbox icon is constantly syncing, which led me to this forum to investigate. I have a feeling it's related to how I'm using symlinks in my Dropbox folder, though I haven't found a question here that quite fits my needs.
What I have is a directory like Dropbox/projects, and this only contains symlinks out to project directories on local storage. I don't want to sync these external project files (which is the common use case I see described on the forum), instead, I just want the symlinks to sit there so I can follow them locally into various projects. What is the best approach?
One idea I have is to use the command line interface (which I just discovered) to exclude the symlinks. So this command
dropbox exclude add Dropbox/projects/*
seems to work just fine. However, I have another nested set of symlinks that I would need to exclude as well, preferably like this:
dropbox exclude add Dropbox/clients/*/projects/*
where the first * would be a wild card to match all client directories with any name (and then, I want to ignore the symlinks inside the projects directory for each client if that makes sense). However, this doesn't seem to match any files so I have a feeling the * isn't working as expected.
Anyway, would love some guidance on this, hopefully I can get the syncing to stop running non-stop!
Thanks!
