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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2020
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Parker Timmerman, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Benjamin Blum, Seattle, WA (US);
Tate Song, Austin, TX (US);
Hongyi Shen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yannis Liapis, Austin, TX (US);
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
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.