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Give it a go and let me know how you get along. The biggest issue I had to get this working was to have a stable installation of a headless Dropbox client on the Linux box.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "share an unprotected link with each of the users". I go to a computer with a desktop client. In my case a Mac that's logged in to the account that's syncing with the headless Linux server. I right click on one of the folders and send a share to that user's account. I can give them edit…
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What I've got is a Dropbox account on a headless linux server that's FTP enabled. The linux account folder structure looks like this: ~account/Dropbox ~account/Dropbox/fred ~account/Dropbox/mary ~account/Dropbox/john etc I then send a share link for each of the user's folders Fred, Mary, John to the respective user. That…
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No, the reverse. Create a new account that has the actual files I wanted to sync with a larger dropbox that I didn't want to sync every folder.
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Hi @"Walter" - I've found another workaround which is to just share a specific folder with another Dropbox. This avoids syncing and excluding. But pausing the sync after setting up the link was going to be my next step. I think all of this can be avoided if there was a config file that could be read by the dropbox linux…
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Just wondering if this question was ever resolved/fixed. I too would like to only have one folder, on the top level, of an account synced on my Linux headless server without having to have the whole account synced first before I can exclude all other folders.
