Robert T.26 Helpful | Level 6

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  • i just happened to find this old bash script i wrote under ~/Dropbox/.dropbox.cache/old_files/ Because it was found under /old_files/, it is probably not the best version, so use at your own risk! Since it does not delete files, only does dropbox exclude operations, it might be safe. This was written maybe a decade ago.…
    in sync only one folder on linux Comment by Robert T.26 March 2023
  • Nothing new, but SSDs smaller than Dropbox storage. Because the filesystem is out of space, i excluded a large number of files from syncing locally to dropbox using dropbox exclude add ~/Dropbo/ExcludeThisLargeFolder/ But dropbox does not free up that space first, it continues to attempt to download more files even though…
    in sync only one folder on linux Comment by Robert T.26 March 2023
  • Tried 'Pause Syncing'. Tried limiting download bandwidth to 1.0kb. Still hard disk is full and dropbox knows it is full. Will not work on removing excluded folders and files first! Need a way to prioritize the exclude operations over syncing new files.
    in sync only one folder on linux Comment by Robert T.26 March 2023
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