Dropbox, Inc.

Tate Song

Parker Timmerman

Yannis Liapis

Benjamin Blum

Hongyi Shen

Techniques and systems are provided for utilizing an ignore file in a content management system. For example, a process can detect an ignore file stored in a synchronized directory of a client device. The process can access the ignore file and interpret rules stored therein that prohibit any objects matching the rule from being synchronized with a content management server. During indexing of a synchronized directory, the process can apply the rules from the ignore file and mark objects that match a rule in the ignore file by writing an attribute to the object that identifies it as an ignored object that is exempt from synchronization with the content management server.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Tate Song