WreckItTim1 Helpful | Level 6

yayyy, I have been waiting for this feature for ever! Honestly making a rules.dropboxignore with wildcards to ignore cache folders is just amazing (no more conflicts!) **/.ipynb_checkpoints **/__pycache__ **/.vs chef's kiss =* thank you Dropbox!

Yes my syncing has been incredibly slow

It will actively sync while running if that is your question. In the OP, I was syncing after it finished running. It helped when I permanently* deleted the files from the trash through a web browser.

Thanks for the quick response! After several attempts, and waiting for a couple of hours, it appears to have been permanently deleted. Maybe it just took some time to update, or something along those lines?

hmmm no I checked and I have 1,970 files on Dropbox on one desktop which is up to date on the sync. However I am syncing onto another desktop which says "Downloading 767,906 files" -- it currently has 1,879 files on Dropbox. I am assuming this is because of a third party app that has been writing temporary files that are…

A new user in our lab just set up our Dropbox repo on their computer, but did not follow the proper order of things to get it working with a local folder within the Dropbox directory. The order being: (1) sync with current state of the Dropbox, (2) turn off sync, (3) make the new folder that will be ignored, (4) issue the…

It wouldn't be copy and paste a .ignore file because the .ignore file will autosync to Dropbox in the same way that GitHub does. The issue is the order of operations which have to be done when setting up any new device: (1) sync with current state of your dropbox, (2) turn off sync, (3) make new folder that will be…

It's a nice hack, but doesn't quite accomplish the same features that would be available if Dropbox created an .ignore file. The folders will still natively sync with the Dropbox backend, which can cause item conflicts if any custom ignore script isn't executed in proper order. And let's be honest here, people are going to…

@"projectdeliverypartners" Dude you’re not using this at the level we are discussing. It’s not just handling one folder and you’re done. It’s accessing sync operations across several devices, through remote operations. As is, without an ignore file and just with using the ignore command, you have to manage each folder for…

@"projectdeliverypartners" no that is not the functionality asked for by the OP, or I imagine most of the people in this thread as we have been discussing this for quite some time. What you are talking about is what the OP is referring to as select sync, and most of us are very well aware of it. It requires a whole process…

re-bumping this because I am now seriously considering switching my distro over to another provider than Dropbox. It is just so unsustainable and unstable across multiple devices without this feature... 

I previously wrote a post about generally throttling the entire cache. I understand the cache is used by Dropbox through several of its routines, which may make this difficult. However, is it possible to just turn off the "old_files" folder? I routinely run programs through my Dropbox setup across multiple devices. Part of…

Can Dropbox please revisit cache settings. There are several programs which write temporary files that can clutter the cache. I've ran into this a couple times, and so have other users that I have seen on the forums. I've had my cache blow up to hundreds of gigs -- which otherwise fills up the hard disk space. Honestly, I…

these conflicts are getting really pesky, and even though I have script to go and set the attribute to ignore to a set list of folders... the behavior is still wonky and it is easy to do a slipup with the timing of when you need to do a combination of: sync, crate folders with same name that are local, ignore those local…

Yes it’s the same for me! If I close VS then eventually the problem will go away. I’m pretty sure VS does some cleaning when you close it and they delete these temporary files. It’s still odd though that Dropbox tries to sync them.

It is an autogenerated file from visual studio created whenever its used, with a random hash name, so that is not a valid solution. Which is why I made the parent folder an ignore, so that anything which gets dynamically added into that folder should also be ignored.

Thanks for the quick response! Ya here is some more info: Dropbox version: 197.4.7629 Windows 10 Pro version: 10.0.19045 Build 19045 the file that cant sync is in an autogenerated folder from using Microsoft Visual Studio and is located in my Dropbox folder > .vs > project folder > FileContentIndex > file.vsidx Microsoft…

I know you can ignore files and folders (making them only a local file that does not sync with Dropbox) using: https://help.dropbox.com/sync/ignored-files However, this requires a command line entry for every file/folder that you want to ignore. Not only this, but you have to enter the ignore command for each…